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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.
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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions they hold them.
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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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Wit and judgment often are at strife.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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