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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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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.

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We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.

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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.

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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.

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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.

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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.

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

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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?

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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?

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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.

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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.

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The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?

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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.

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Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.

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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.

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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.

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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.

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