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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.

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Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.

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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.

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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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New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.

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A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also. JOHN LOCKE, "Of a King", The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough: a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.

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Cavil you may, but never criticise.

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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

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

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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

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Whatever is, is right.

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Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan.

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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.

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When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.

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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

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There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change.

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Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.

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