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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

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No craving void left aching in the soul.

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Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.

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The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.

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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide; Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.

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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.

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

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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!

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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.

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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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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.

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Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.

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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

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

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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

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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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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

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