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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
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The villain's censure is extorted praise.
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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
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The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
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The zeal of fools offends at any time.
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
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Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.
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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own Or come discolor'd through out passions shown Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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