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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.
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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
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When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
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Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
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Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.
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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.
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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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