title: Flowing wealth: Exceedingly abundantly above all that we can ask or think
author:  David Wells 
description: Walk in abundance in this life by following these keys from the Bible.
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  TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ALLEN, LORD BATHURST  
    
  
  
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  # TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ALLEN, LORD BATHURST.
  
  
  ### Alexander Pope
  
  
  
  
  
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  EPISTLE III.
  
  
  
  
  
  Of the use of Riches. That the true use of Riches is known to few, most
  
  
  falling into one of the Extremes, Avarice or Profusion.
  
  
    
    
    
  
  
  Who shall decide, when Doctors disagree,  
  
  
  And soundest Casuists doubt like you and me?  
  
  
  You hold the Word, from Jove to Momus1 giv'n,  
  
  
  That man was made the standing jest of heav'n,  
  
  
  And Gold but sent to keep the fools in play,  
  
  
  For half to heap, and half to throw away.  
  
  
  But I, who think more highly of our kind,  
  
  
  (And surely Heav'n and I are of a mind)  
  
  
  Opine, that Nature, as in duty bound,  
  
  
  Deep hid the shining mischief under ground:  
  
  
  But when, by Man's audacious labour won,  