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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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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.
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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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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
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Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.
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A long, exact, and serious comedy In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.
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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.
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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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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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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
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