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

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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.

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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.

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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.

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Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.

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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.

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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!

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Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own; But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.

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There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.

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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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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And universal darkness buries all.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.

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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.

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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

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