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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.

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Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.

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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.

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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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

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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.

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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.

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Every woman is at heart a rake.

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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.

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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.

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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again; The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!

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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.

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Wit and judgment often are at strife.

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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.

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The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.

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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.

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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.

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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.

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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

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