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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.

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

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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.

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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.

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The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.

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Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.

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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.

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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.

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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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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .

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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.

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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.

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A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.

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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?

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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!

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

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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.

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