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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.

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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.

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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.

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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.

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

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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

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Most authors steal their works, or buy.

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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.

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Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?

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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?

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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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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.

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With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears; The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.

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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

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

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No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.

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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.

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A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.

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