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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

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To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence.

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Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense.

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I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as such are chiefly sensible, that all Art consists in the Imitation and Study of Nature. On the contrary, People of the common Level of Understanding are principally delighted with the Little Niceties and Fantastical Operations of Art, and constantly think that finest which is least Natural.

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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.

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A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.

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Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.

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Genius creates, and taste preserves.

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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

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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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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.

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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

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

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So perish all who do the like again.

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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.

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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.

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Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.

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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.

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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.

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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

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