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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.

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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.

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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?

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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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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.

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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.

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I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as such are chiefly sensible, that all Art consists in the Imitation and Study of Nature. On the contrary, People of the common Level of Understanding are principally delighted with the Little Niceties and Fantastical Operations of Art, and constantly think that finest which is least Natural.

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A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.

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Wit and judgment often are at strife.

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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.

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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

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Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

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

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