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

Alexander Pope

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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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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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Say first, of god above or man below what can we reason but from what we know.
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As with narrow-necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
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The good must merit God's peculiar care But who but God can tell us who they are?
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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
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Then sculpture and her sister arts revived stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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