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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
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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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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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