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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...
• 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...
• 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....
• 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...
• A wit 's a feather, and a chief a rod; An honest man 's the noblest work of God.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 247...
• Never elated when one man 's oppress'd; Never dejected while another 's bless'd.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 323...
• In lazy apathy let stoics boast Their virtue fix'd
  't is fix'd as in a frost; Contracted all, retiring to the brea...