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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

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For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends

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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.

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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.

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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.

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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.

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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.

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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.

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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.

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If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!

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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.

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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.

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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.

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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

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