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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
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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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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
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It is sure the hardest science to forget!
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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