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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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Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense,
Lie in three words,--health, peace, and competence.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 79
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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunello.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 203...
What can ennoble sots or slaves or cowards? Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 215...
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line 267...
That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 397...
T is but a part we see, and not a whole.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line 60...
The soul's calm sunshine and the heartfelt joy.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 168...
Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 390...
Order is heaven's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise
but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense....
Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason,--man is not a fly.
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