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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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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
Literary Historian
Poet
Translator
the City
Pope the Poet
Alexander I Pope
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Season
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Seasons
Sing
Come
Never

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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
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Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
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I have more zeal than wit.
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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
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One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.
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If, presume not to God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.
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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?
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So perish all who do the like again.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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