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• Know then this truth (enough for man to know),-- "Virtue alone is happiness below.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 309...
• 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...
• 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...
• Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know?
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line 17...
• 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....