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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.

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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.

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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.

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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.

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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.

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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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Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.

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Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?

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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.

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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.

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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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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.

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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.

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Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.

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Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.

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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.

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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.

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