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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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.
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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
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See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .
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When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!
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A perfect woman's but a softer man.
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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
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It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.
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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.
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