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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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