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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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Alexander I Pope
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Season
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Sing
Come
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Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.
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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
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While man exclaims, See all things for my use! See man for mine! replies a pamper'd goose.
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
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The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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The zeal of fools offends at any time.
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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
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