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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
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Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
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What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.
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But honest instinct comes a volunteer Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
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To Him no high, no low, no great, no small He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!
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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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