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Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.

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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!

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Cavil you may, but never criticise.

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

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Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.

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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

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Beauty draws us with a single hair.

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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.

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See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.

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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.

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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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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

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Whatever is, is right.

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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.

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The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.

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That each from other differs, first confess; next that he varies from himself no less.

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How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.

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

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