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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

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The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.

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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .

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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.

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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

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Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.

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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

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Woman's at best a contradiction still.

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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

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"With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"-She wants a heart.

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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.

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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

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For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.

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The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.

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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.

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Most authors steal their works, or buy.

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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.

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