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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.

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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.

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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.

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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.

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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.

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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.

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

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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.

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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.

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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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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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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

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So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.

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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.

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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.

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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

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

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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.

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