Alexander Pope Quotes About Happiness
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Order is heaven's first law.
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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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.
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