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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.

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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.

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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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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.

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

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Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.

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Is not absence death to those who love?

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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.

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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.

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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.

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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!

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Wit and judgment often are at strife.

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So perish all who do the like again.

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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.

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

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

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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And universal darkness buries all.

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

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