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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 difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own Or come discolor'd through out passions shown Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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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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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
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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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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
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The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
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