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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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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
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How vast a memory has Love!
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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A field of glory is a field for all.
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Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.
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