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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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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.

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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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And more than echoes talk along the walls.

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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

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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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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

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I have more zeal than wit.

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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.

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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.

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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue

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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.

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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.

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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again; The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!

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The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.

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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.

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The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.

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