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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.

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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.

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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?

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In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.

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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.

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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

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The villain's censure is extorted praise.

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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.

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

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A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.

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False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.

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For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best.

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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.

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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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Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.

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

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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.

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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

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A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also. JOHN LOCKE, "Of a King", The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough: a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

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