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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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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!

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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.

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

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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.

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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.

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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.

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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.

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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.

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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?

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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.

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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

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No creature smarts so little as a fool.

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The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.

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

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Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.

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