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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.

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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.

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Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?

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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend; A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot; Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.

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

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Passions are the gales of life.

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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.

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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.

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Woman's at best a contradiction still.

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Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?

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Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.

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Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!

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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.

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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

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

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