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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.

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Wit and judgment often are at strife.

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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.

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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!

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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.

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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 laughers are a majority.

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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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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.

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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?

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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.

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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.

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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.

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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.

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

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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!

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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.

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To err is human; to forgive, divine.

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