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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.

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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.

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See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.

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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.

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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

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Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.

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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?

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Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.

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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.

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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.

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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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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.

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

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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.

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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.

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So perish all who do the like again.

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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.

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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.

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