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For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?

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Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.

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Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?

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Angels contented with their face in heaven, Seek not the praise of men.

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And what the people but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise? They praise, and they admire, they know not what; And know not whom, but as one leads the other; And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise?

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Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.

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Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

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Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.

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Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?

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A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.

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Death to life is crown or shame.

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The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, Safest and seemliest by her husband stays, Who guards her, or with her the worst endures.

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Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways.

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Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.

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If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.

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This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.

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Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth.

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It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.

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There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness, which in a thousand outward and intermitting crosses may yet be done well, as in this vale of tears.

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What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

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