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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.

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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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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.

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Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.

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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd

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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.

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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.

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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.

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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.

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Whatever is, is right.

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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

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Never find fault with the absent.

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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.

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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.

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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.

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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are proud; if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.

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