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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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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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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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Say first, of god above or man below what can we reason but from what we know.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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