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Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light.

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Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was a poet and satirist of the Augustan period and one of its greatest artistic exponents. Considered the foremost English poet of the early 18th century and a master of the heroic couplet, he is best known for satirical and discursive poetry.

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Alternative Names: Pope the Poet • Alexander I Pope • Alexander, I Pope

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For he lives twice who can at once employ,
The present well, and e’en the past enjoy.

"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed" was the ninth Beatitude which a man of wit (who, like a man of wit, was a long time in gaol) added to the eighth.

Be not the first by whom the new are tired, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light. - Alexander Pope

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