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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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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
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