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See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
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Man, like the generous vine, supported lives the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
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