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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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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.
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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
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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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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
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Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.
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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
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