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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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A field of glory is a field for all.
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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 finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
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Hope humbly then with trembling pinions soar Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
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Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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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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The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.
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There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
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Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
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