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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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Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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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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Every woman is at heart a rake.
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Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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