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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.

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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.

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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.

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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.

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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!

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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

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As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.

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How vast a memory has Love!

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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.

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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?

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And write about it, Goddess, and about it!

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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

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I have more zeal than wit.

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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue

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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.

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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?

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"With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"-She wants a heart.

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