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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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Never find fault with the absent.
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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friends motions and inclinations, he possesses this in a eminent degree he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more than many good friends can pretend to do.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
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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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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
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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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As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
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