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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!

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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.

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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.

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Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.

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With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.

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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

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No more was seen the human form divine.

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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.

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That, chang'd thro' all and yet in all the same, Great in the Earth as in th' Ætherial frame, Warms in the Sun, refreshes in the Breeze, Glows in the Stars, and blossoms in the Trees... Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part... Submit - in this, or any other Sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear. All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony not understood... All partial Evil, universal Good.

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Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?

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That each from other differs, first confess; next that he varies from himself no less.

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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.

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Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?

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Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.

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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.

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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.

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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!

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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.

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