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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?
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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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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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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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