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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.

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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.

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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.

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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

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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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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

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

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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?

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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.

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The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.

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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.

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All nature is but art unknown to thee.

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A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.

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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.

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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me; Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.

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