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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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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.

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The enormous faith of many made for one.

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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.

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Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person; they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies; so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.

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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.

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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.

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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.

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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.

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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

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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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And write about it, Goddess, and about it!

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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.

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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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This long disease, my life.

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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend; A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot; Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.

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All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.

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

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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.

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