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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

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Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.

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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.

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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.

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Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.

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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.

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Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.

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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.

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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.

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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.

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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.

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

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Whatever is, is right.

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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.

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