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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.

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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.

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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.

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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?

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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!

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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.

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

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What will a child learn sooner than a song?

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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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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

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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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Beauty draws us with a single hair.

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Education forms the common mind.

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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

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

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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.

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So perish all who do the like again.

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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.

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