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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.

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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.

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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.

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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.

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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

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

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

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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.

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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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It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.

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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.

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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.

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

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No craving void left aching in the soul.

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Never find fault with the absent.

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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.

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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.

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