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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
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Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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