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New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.

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So perish all who do the like again.

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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

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

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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.

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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.

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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!

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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue

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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.

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What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

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Virtue alone is happiness below.

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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.

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Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be Blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home, Rest and expatiates in a life to come. Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way; Yet simple Nature to his hope has giv'n, Behind the cloud-topp'd hill, an humbler heav'n.

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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.

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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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

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