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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.

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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away; . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.

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The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.

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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.

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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

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Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.

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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?

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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.

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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.

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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.

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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.

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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?

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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.

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A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

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