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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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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
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Education forms the common mind.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.
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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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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
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Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.
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The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.
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I have more zeal than wit.
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield Learn from the beasts the physic of the field The arts of building from the bee receive Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.
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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity both being equally subject to change.
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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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How vast a memory has Love!
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