Note 1433 — AN ESSAY ON MAN, IN FOUR EPISTLES (continued 3)
Reading edition
Sir W. Temple, Works, vol. iii. p. 531: "Whether a good condition with fear of being ill, or an ill with hope of being well, pleases or displeases most." Pope's MS. goes on thus:
How widely then at happiness we aim By selfish pleasures, riches, pow'r or fame! Increase of these is but increase of pain, Wrong the materials, and the labour vain.