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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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.
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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?
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And make each day a critic on the last.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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