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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
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Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.
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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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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.
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