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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them

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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.

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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.

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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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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.

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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.

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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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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.

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

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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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To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence.

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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.

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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.

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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.

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Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try, And ring suspected vessels ere they buy; But wives, a random choice, untried they take; They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake; Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away, And all the woman glares in open day.

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On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.

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