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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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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
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Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at if we laugh at it, they say we are proud if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.
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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
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Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.
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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
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Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
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Tis true, 'tis certain man, though dead, retains Part of himself the immortal mind remains.
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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
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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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The villain's censure is extorted praise.
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