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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.
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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
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Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
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Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.
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Woman's at best a contradiction still.
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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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Hope humbly then with trembling pinions soar Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
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We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
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The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.
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Most women have no characters at all.
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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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