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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.

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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

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Truth needs not flowers of speech.

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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.

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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

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The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

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Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?

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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

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Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.

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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.

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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.

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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.

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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.

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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.

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If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!

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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

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

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A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also. JOHN LOCKE, "Of a King", The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough: a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

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