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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
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To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.
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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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Hope springs eternal.
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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