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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
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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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See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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