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And make each day a critic on the last.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
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Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
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Health consists with temperance alone.
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Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.
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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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Judge not of actions by their mere effect Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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To Him no high, no low, no great, no small He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!
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