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A perfect woman's but a softer man.

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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.

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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.

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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]

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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?

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But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.

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In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.

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Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore; What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.

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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.

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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.

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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.

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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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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.

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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.

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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.

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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.

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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.

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