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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
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Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.
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Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
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In men, we various ruling passions find In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions they hold them.
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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