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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.

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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

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For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends

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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.

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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.

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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.

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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

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Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.

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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.

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Whatever is, is right.

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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.

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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.

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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.

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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.

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Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own

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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

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Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.

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