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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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The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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And make each day a critic on the last.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.
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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
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A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.
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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
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The good must merit God's peculiar care But who but God can tell us who they are?
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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