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True, she is fair, oh, how divinely fair! But still the lovely maid improves her charms With inward greatness, unaffected wisdom, And sanctity of manners.-– The virtuous Marcia towers above her sex.

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‘Tis not a set of features nor complexion, The tincture of a skin that I admire, Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. Should one of these fine creatures be addressed in the words of Juba, If the fair ones we have been speaking of have a true ascendant over them, they will oblige them to divest themselves of common sense, and to talk and act ridiculously, before they can think them worthy of the least regard. Wise men are chiefly captivated with the charms of the mind and whenever they are infatuated with a passion for any thing else, it is generally observed that they cease, during that time at least, to be what they were and are indeed looked upon to be only playing the fool. But nature seemed to foresee, and has provided against such an inconvenience, by tempering its greatest master-pieces with a due proportion of pride and vanity: so that their power, depending upon the duration of their beauty only, is like to be but of a short continuance which, when they happen to prove tyrants, is no small comfort to us and then, even while it lasts, will abate much of its severity by the allay of those two prevailing ingredients. How much more heavenly and powerful would beauty prove, if it were not so frequently impaired by the affectation and conceitedness of its possessor? If some women were but as modest and unassuming as they are handsome, they might command the hearts of all that behold them.

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