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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?-She wants a heart.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
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Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at if we laugh at it, they say we are proud if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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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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