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

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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.

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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

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No more was seen the human form divine.

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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?

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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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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

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The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.

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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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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.

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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.

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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.

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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.

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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.

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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

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