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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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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.
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Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own
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From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king.
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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
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The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.
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Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.
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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
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Avoid Extremes and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
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