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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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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
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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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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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No more was seen the human form divine.
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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
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Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.
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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
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True self-love and social are the same.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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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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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
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