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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
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When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
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