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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!

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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.

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For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best.

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Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.

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But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse; Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.

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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.

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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?

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Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day; So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.

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It is sure the hardest science to forget!

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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.

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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

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A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also. JOHN LOCKE, "Of a King", The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough: a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

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

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A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.

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Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.

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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

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Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.

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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!

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