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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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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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