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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

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The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.

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

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The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.

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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.

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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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

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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.

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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.

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

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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!

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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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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.

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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.

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