What bosom beast not in his country's cause?

Alexander Pope
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What bosom beast not in his country's cause?
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Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain. ✨ Alexander Pope, I … ▶
Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live. ✨ Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1822). The poems of Alexander Pope, p.91
Men would be angels, angels would be gods. ✨ 'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 125

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