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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Hope humbly then with trembling pinions soar Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
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