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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
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Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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False happiness is like false money it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.
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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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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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Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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