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This long disease, my life.

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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain

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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.

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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

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Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.

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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

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For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.

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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.

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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.

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All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.

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Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?

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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.

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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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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.

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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.

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The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.

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

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