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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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Passions are the gales of life.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them
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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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So perish all who do the like again.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
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