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Not always actions show the man we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Woman's at best a contradiction still.
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Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.
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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
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Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.
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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
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