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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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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.
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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoyIs it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Not always actions show the man we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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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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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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