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Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
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The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.
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No craving void left aching in the soul.
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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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The good must merit God's peculiar care But who but God can tell us who they are?
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
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