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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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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
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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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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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Be niggards of advice on no pretense For the worst avarice is that of sense.
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Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?
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