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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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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
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Search then the ruling passion there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known The fool consistent, and the false sincere Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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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.
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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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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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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
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Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
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