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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Alexander Pope
Beauty, Eye, Winning
'The Rape of the Lock' (1714) canto 5, l. 33

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

Alexander Pope
Beauty, Nature, Conceited
Alexander Pope (1751). “The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. Publ. by mr. Warburton. With occasional notes”, p.44

There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change.

Alexander Pope
Beauty, Men, Littles
Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.125

'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.

Alexander Pope
Beauty, Eye, Joints
Alexander Pope, William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester) (1751). “The Works of Alexander Pope Esq”, p.101

Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair.

Alexander Pope
Beauty, Men, Hair
Alexander Pope (2013). “The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.42, BookCaps Study Guides

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