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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?

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

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At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

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From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's favorite or a king.

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The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.

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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.

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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.

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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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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 blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.

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The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.

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And make each day a critic on the last.

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The laughers are a majority.

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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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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.

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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.

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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.

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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please; Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.

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To Him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!

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Superstition is the spleen of the soul.

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