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Pity Quotes by Alexander Pope

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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of…

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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.

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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

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Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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