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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
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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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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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