The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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The soul's calm sunshine and the heartfelt joy.Alexander Pope
Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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Is there a parson, much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoomed his father's soul to cross; Who pens a stanza, when he should engross.
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What beck'ning ghost, along the moon-light shade
Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
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See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth,
All matter quick, and bursting into birth.
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From pride, from pride, our very reas'ning springs;
Account for moral, as for nat'ral things:
Why charge we Heav'n in those, in these acquit?
Alexander Pope
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