Alexander Pope - An Essay on Man

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That true self-love and social are the same.

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Observe how system into system runs,
What other planets circle other suns.

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Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

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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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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law,
Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw:
Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight,
A little louder, but as empty quite:
Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage,
And beads and prayer books are the toys of age! Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before;
Till tir'd he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.

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O happiness! our being's end and aim!
Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name:
That something still which prompts the eternal sigh,
For which we bear to live, or dare to die.

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All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee;
All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see;
All Discord, Harmony, not understood;
All partial Evil, universal Good:
And, spite of Pride, in erring Reason's spite,
One truth is clear, 'Whatever IS, is RIGHT.'

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Honour and shame from no condition rise;
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

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All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body, Nature is, and God the soul.

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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

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Form'd by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe.

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