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Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own

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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.

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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

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Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

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

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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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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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Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.

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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.

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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.

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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.

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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.

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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.

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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.

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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.

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The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

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