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And make each day a critic on the last.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
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The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
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There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.
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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
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