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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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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
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Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.
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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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The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
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Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?
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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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