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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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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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False happiness is like false money it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
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