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See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
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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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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
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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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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.
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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
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