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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
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Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?
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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.
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It is sure the hardest science to forget!
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.
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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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