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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood All partial evil, universal good.
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Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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