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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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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
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Order is heaven's first law.
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.
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