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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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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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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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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost contracted all, retiring to the breast but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.
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