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An honest man's the noblest work of God.

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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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Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

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Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.

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Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.

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All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.

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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!

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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.

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Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.

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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.

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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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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.

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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?

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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.

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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.

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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.

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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

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On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.

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