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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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The laughers are a majority.
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Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.
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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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