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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.

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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.

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Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.

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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.

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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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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

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There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.

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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

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How vast a memory has Love!

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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?

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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.

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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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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.

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Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.

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