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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.

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Mankind is unamendable.

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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.

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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.

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Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.

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Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.

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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

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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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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.

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

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What will a child learn sooner than a song?

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Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.

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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?

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

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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.

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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

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