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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.

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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.

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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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There is a majesty in simplicity.

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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.

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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.

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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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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.

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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.

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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.

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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.

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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.

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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

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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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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.

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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

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With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears; The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.

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I have more zeal than wit.

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