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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!

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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

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Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.

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A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.

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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.

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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

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A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.

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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?

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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.

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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.

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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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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.

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No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly: What the advantage, if his finer eyes Study a Mite, not comprehend the Skies?... Or quick Effluvia darting thro' his brain, Die of a Rose, in Aromatic pain? If Nature thunder'd in his opening ears, And stunn'd him with the music of the Spheres... Who finds not Providence all-good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies?

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This long disease, my life.

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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.

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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

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Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.

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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.

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