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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
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Women use lovers as they do cards they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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Search then the ruling passion there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known The fool consistent, and the false sincere Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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