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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

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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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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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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.

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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.

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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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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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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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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

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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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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.

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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.

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Virtue alone is happiness below.

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The most positive men are the most credulous.

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And empty heads console with empty sound.

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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?

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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.

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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.

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