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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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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield Learn from the beasts the physic of the field The arts of building from the bee receive Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .
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Nothing is more certain than much of the force as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
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There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.
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Say first, of god above or man below what can we reason but from what we know.
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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
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Order is heaven's first law.
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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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True self-love and social are the same.
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Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?
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