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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
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Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.
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