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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.
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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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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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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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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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