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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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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.
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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
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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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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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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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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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