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Every woman is at heart a rake.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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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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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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Is not absence death to those who love?
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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
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The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
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