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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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Man, like the generous vine, supported lives the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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The grave unites where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
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Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.
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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
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