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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.

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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!

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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.

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Expression is the dress of thought.

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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.

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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.

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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

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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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Passions are the gales of life.

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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.

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And not a vanity is given in vain.

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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

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In death a hero, as in life a friend!

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