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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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I am his Highness' dog at Kew Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.
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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.
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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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