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An honest man's the noblest work of God.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.
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For forms of government, let fools contest Whate'er is best administered, is best.
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And write about it, Goddess, and about it!
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All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.
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The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
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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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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.
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Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
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Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.
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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
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