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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
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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Every woman is at heart a rake.
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Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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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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So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
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