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Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.

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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.

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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.

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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

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Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.

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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

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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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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.

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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

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The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.

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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.

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Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try, And ring suspected vessels ere they buy; But wives, a random choice, untried they take; They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake; Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away, And all the woman glares in open day.

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And die of nothing but a rage to live.

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Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.

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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.

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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?

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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

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