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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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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
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Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
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No, make me mistress to the man I love If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
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What bosom beast not in his country's cause?
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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