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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.

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No creature smarts so little as a fool.

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Cavil you may, but never criticise.

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Tis true, 'tis certain; man, though dead, retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.

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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.

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Passions are the gales of life.

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Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.

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Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.

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Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.

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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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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.

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Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise? 'T is but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

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Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.

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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.

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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.

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Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.

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