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It is sure the hardest science to forget!

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
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The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
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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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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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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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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
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And not a vanity is given in vain.
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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
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Avoid Extremes and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.
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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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