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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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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
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