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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
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Dogs, ye have had your day!
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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.
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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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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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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
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