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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.

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And die of nothing but a rage to live.

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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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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

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Beauty draws us with a single hair.

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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.

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Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

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Virtue alone is happiness below.

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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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Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still; A Gownman learn'd; a Bishop what you will; Wise if a minister; but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.

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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.

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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.

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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.

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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.

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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!

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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

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I have more zeal than wit.

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