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Passions Quotes by Alexander Pope
- Passions are the gales of life.
- In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of…
- The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through…
- Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
- In men we various ruling passions find, In women, two almost divide the kind; Those, only fixed, they first orlast obey, The love of pleasure,…
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