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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

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Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.

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What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.

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There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.

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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.

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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good.

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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.

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See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.

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From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's favorite or a king.

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All nature is but art unknown to thee.

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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.

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It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.

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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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Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.

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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.

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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

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Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.

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