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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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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
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The villain's censure is extorted praise.
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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
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The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
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Is not absence death to those who love?
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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