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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.

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To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence.

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Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.

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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

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Superstition is the spleen of the soul.

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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

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From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's favorite or a king.

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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.

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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.

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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.

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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

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

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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.

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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.

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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

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Wit and judgment often are at strife.

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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.

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