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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again; The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!

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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.

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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.

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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

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A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.

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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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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain

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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life; A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil; Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.

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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?

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To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.

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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.

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No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!

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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.

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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.

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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.

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