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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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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
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Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.
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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
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Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
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Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try, And ring suspected vessels ere they buy But wives, a random choice, untried they take They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away, And all the woman glares in open day.
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The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.
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As with narrow-necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.
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