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A perfect woman's but a softer man.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.
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A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!
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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.
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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.
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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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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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