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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

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Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?

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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.

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Superstition is the spleen of the soul.

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Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?

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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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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!

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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.

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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.

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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!

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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.

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

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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.

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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.

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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.

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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?

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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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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.

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