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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.

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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

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The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.

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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.

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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.

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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?

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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.

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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

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

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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.

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Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore; What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.

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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.

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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.

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All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.

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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?

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Order is heaven's first law.

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