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Order is heaven's first law.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
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Every woman is at heart a rake.
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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
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Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
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The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.
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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
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Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
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Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
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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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