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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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The zeal of fools offends at any time.
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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.
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