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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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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
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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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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions they hold them.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
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No more was seen the human form divine.
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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.
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Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.
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But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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