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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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