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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
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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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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
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