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Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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And empty heads console with empty sound.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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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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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
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