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Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

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What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.

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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.

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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.

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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

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

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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.

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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.

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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

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Tis true, 'tis certain; man, though dead, retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.

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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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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?

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Genius involves both envy and calumny.

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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.

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