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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
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Judge not of actions by their mere effect Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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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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I have more zeal than wit.
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It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.
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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
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