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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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Every woman is at heart a rake.

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The most positive men are the most credulous.

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

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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.

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The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.

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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

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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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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.

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

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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life; A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil; Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.

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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.

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The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.

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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.

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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.

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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.

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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

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Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.

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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.

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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.

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