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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

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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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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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Hope springs eternal.
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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.
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