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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.

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For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best.

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

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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.

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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.

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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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As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.

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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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No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.

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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?

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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

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

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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

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But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse; Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.

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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.

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Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.

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

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