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A mighty maze! But not without a plan.

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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.

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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born to die, and reasoning but to err.

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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.

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Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.

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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.

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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.

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I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.

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

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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

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At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.

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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.

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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good.

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There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.

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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.

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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.

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