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These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!

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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

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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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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.

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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

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Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still; A Gownman learn'd; a Bishop what you will; Wise if a minister; but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.

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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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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.

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In death a hero, as in life a friend!

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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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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.

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A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.

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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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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.

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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.

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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.

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But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse; Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.

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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

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