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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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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.
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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.
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Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.
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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
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And not a vanity is given in vain.
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