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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own Or come discolor'd through out passions shown Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
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I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.
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With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?-She wants a heart.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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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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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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