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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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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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