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

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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.

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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

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Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

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I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.

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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.

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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; The arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.

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In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.

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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.

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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.

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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

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Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.

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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.

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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.

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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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Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise? 'T is but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

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