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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A perfect woman's but a softer man.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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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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Every woman is at heart a rake.
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Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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But honest instinct comes a volunteer Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
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