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

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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.

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Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan.

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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

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Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?

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To Him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!

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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?

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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.

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Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.

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Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

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With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.

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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.

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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?

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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.

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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.

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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

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