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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.

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Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.

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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.

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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

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When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.

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A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

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The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.

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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.

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To err is human; to forgive, divine.

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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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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

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Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.

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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

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There various news I heard of love and strife,Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,Of loss and gain, of famine and of store,Of storms at sea, and travels on the shore,Of prodigies, and portents seen in air,Of fires and plagues, and stars with blazing hair,Of turns of fortune, changes in the state,The fall of favourites, projects of the great,Of aid mismanagements, taxations new:All neither wholly false, nor wholly true.

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