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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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No more was seen the human form divine.
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Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.
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