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With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.

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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

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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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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.

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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

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The zeal of fools offends at any time.

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

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Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.

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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.

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The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!

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See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.

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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.

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Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

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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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There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change.

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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

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There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.

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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

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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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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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