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That Virtue Only Makes Our Bliss Below, And All Our Knowledge Is Ourselves To Know.
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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
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Know then this truth (enough for man to know),-- "Virtue alone is happiness below.
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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunello.
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What can ennoble sots or slaves or cowards? Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards.
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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.
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Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know?
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Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzza
And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Caesar with a senate at his heels....
In lazy apathy let stoics boast Their virtue fix'd
't is fix'd as in a frost; Contracted all, retiring to the brea...
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....