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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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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.
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The good must merit God's peculiar care But who but God can tell us who they are?
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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
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Hope humbly then with trembling pinions soar Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Be niggards of advice on no pretense For the worst avarice is that of sense.
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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In men, we various ruling passions find In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
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Education forms the common mind.
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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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The zeal of fools offends at any time.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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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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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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