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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

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

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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.

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

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The zeal of fools offends at any time.

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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.

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No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!

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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.

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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

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Never find fault with the absent.

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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.

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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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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.

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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.

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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

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A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.

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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide; Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.

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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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