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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.

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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.

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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.

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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.

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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.

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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue

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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.

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Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

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From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's favorite or a king.

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There various news I heard of love and strife,Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,Of loss and gain, of famine and of store,Of storms at sea, and travels on the shore,Of prodigies, and portents seen in air,Of fires and plagues, and stars with blazing hair,Of turns of fortune, changes in the state,The fall of favourites, projects of the great,Of aid mismanagements, taxations new:All neither wholly false, nor wholly true.

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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.

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Every woman is at heart a rake.

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Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.

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Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.

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These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!

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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.

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To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence.

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A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.

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