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No more was seen the human form divine.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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