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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

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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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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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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

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True self-love and social are the same.

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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

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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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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.

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I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as such are chiefly sensible, that all Art consists in the Imitation and Study of Nature. On the contrary, People of the common Level of Understanding are principally delighted with the Little Niceties and Fantastical Operations of Art, and constantly think that finest which is least Natural.

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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.

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All chance, direction, which thou canst not see

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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?

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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.

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Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.

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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

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There various news I heard of love and strife,Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,Of loss and gain, of famine and of store,Of storms at sea, and travels on the shore,Of prodigies, and portents seen in air,Of fires and plagues, and stars with blazing hair,Of turns of fortune, changes in the state,The fall of favourites, projects of the great,Of aid mismanagements, taxations new:All neither wholly false, nor wholly true.

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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.

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Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.

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