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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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Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.
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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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