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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

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Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own

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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.

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Is not absence death to those who love?

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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And universal darkness buries all.

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The villain's censure is extorted praise.

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I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as such are chiefly sensible, that all Art consists in the Imitation and Study of Nature. On the contrary, People of the common Level of Understanding are principally delighted with the Little Niceties and Fantastical Operations of Art, and constantly think that finest which is least Natural.

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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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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please; Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.

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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?

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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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All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.

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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.

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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.

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