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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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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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The villain's censure is extorted praise.
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood All partial evil, universal good.
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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.
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