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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
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