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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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Whatever is, is right.
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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!
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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost contracted all, retiring to the breast but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
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She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.
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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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No, make me mistress to the man I love If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
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