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Beauty draws us with a single hair.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at if we laugh at it, they say we are proud if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
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How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.
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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
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But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?
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The laughers are a majority.
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Wit and judgment often are at strife.
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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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But honest instinct comes a volunteer Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
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And write about it, Goddess, and about it!
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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.
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