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What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.

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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

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

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Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.

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Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day; So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.

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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.

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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.

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Virtue alone is happiness below.

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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.

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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.

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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.

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Most women have no characters at all.

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No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly: What the advantage, if his finer eyes Study a Mite, not comprehend the Skies?... Or quick Effluvia darting thro' his brain, Die of a Rose, in Aromatic pain? If Nature thunder'd in his opening ears, And stunn'd him with the music of the Spheres... Who finds not Providence all-good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies?

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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.

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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.

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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me; Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.

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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!

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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

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

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