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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.

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There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change.

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Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.

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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.

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Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?

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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

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For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.

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I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as such are chiefly sensible, that all Art consists in the Imitation and Study of Nature. On the contrary, People of the common Level of Understanding are principally delighted with the Little Niceties and Fantastical Operations of Art, and constantly think that finest which is least Natural.

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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.

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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!

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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

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Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.

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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.

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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born to die, and reasoning but to err.

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