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Time conquers all, and we must time obey.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions they hold them.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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