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Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
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Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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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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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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While man exclaims, See all things for my use! See man for mine! replies a pamper'd goose.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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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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How vast a memory has Love!
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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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