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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!
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Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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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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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
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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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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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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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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.
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