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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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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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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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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.
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No more was seen the human form divine.
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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost contracted all, retiring to the breast but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
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