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An Essay on Man
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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
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The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood,
Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels
Than Caesar with a senate at his heels.
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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true
From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf,
Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
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To be, contents his natural desire,
He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire;
But thinks, admitted to that equal sky,
His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense
Weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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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.
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The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest.
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As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads.
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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar;
Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore;
What future bliss He gives not thee to know,
But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
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If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined,
The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind:
Or ravished with the whistling of a name,
See Cromwell, damned to everlasting fame!
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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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Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies,
And catch the Manners living as they rise.
Laugh where we must, be candid where we can;
But vindicate the ways of God to man.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky,
His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food,
And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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Why has not man a microscopic eye?
For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
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A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod;
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards?
Alas! Not all the blood of all the Howards.
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way; Yet simple nature to his hope has giv'n, Behind the cloud-topp'd hill, an humbler heav'n.
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Shall then this verse to future age pretend
Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend?
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana
Alexander Pope
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Born:
May 21, 1688
Died:
May 30, 1744
(aged 56)
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