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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.
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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
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No craving void left aching in the soul.
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No, make me mistress to the man I love If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
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Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.
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Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still A Gownman learn'd a Bishop what you will Wise if a minister but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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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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