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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.

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The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.

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

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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.

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Order is heaven's first law.

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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.

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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.

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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

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

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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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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.

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The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.

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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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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.

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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!

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