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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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While man exclaims, See all things for my use! See man for mine! replies a pamper'd goose.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
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