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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

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All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.

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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.

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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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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.

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

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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

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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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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.

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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!

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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.

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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.

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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

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