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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.

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Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.

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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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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.

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Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.

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Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?

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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.

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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

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All chance, direction, which thou canst not see

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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

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

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What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.

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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.

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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

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Wit and judgment often are at strife.

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The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.

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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.

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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

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