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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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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
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It is sure the hardest science to forget!
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A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.
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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
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In death a hero, as in life a friend!
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A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!
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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
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