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Woman's at best a contradiction still.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.
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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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