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Every woman is at heart a rake.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
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Woman's at best a contradiction still.
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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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Tis true, 'tis certain man, though dead, retains Part of himself the immortal mind remains.
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True self-love and social are the same.
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
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The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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