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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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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.
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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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