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It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

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Hope is but the dream of those who wake.

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

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They talk most who have the least to say.

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The ends must justify the means.

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For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

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They never taste who always drink: They always talk, who never think.

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And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.

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Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: July 21st, 1664

Died: September 18th, 1721

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