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Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.

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Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise? 'T is but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

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And make each day a critic on the last.

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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.

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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.

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Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

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Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.

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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.

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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.

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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.

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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.

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So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal; 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.

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