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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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No creature smarts so little as a fool.
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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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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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