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The villain's censure is extorted praise.

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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.

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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.

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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.

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For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.

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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

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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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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.

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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

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There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change.

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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.

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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

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Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!

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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them

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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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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

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

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