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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
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Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.
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Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.
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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
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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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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
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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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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
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