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Women use lovers as they do cards they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!
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Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.
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The villain's censure is extorted praise.
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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
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Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.
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No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Be niggards of advice on no pretense For the worst avarice is that of sense.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
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Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.
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Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
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