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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.
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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
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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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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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And empty heads console with empty sound.
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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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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.
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