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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.

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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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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.

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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

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No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.

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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.

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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.

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In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.

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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.

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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!

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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.

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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.

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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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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.

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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away; . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.

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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.

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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.

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