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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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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
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Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
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There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.
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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.
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Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.
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Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?
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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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