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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.

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"With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"-She wants a heart.

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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair.

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The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.

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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.

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Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.

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See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.

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No craving void left aching in the soul.

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A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.

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A little learning is a dangerous thing.

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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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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.

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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life; A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil; Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.

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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.

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Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.

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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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