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Alexander Pope Quotes: Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
         

Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.


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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.



See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.

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