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
Lie in three words,--health, peace, and competence.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 79
Related:
- 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... - 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... - All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body Nature is,
and God the soul. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) ... - That virtue only makes our bliss below,
And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle... - T is but a part we see, and not a whole.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line... - The soul's calm sunshine and the heartfelt joy.
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Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle... - Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line... - Order is heaven's first law; and this confest, Some are,
and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more... - Why has not man a microscopic eye?
For this plain reason,
man is not a fly. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) ...
