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Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.
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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
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Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?
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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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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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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
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