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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

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A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

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No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly: What the advantage, if his finer eyes Study a Mite, not comprehend the Skies?... Or quick Effluvia darting thro' his brain, Die of a Rose, in Aromatic pain? If Nature thunder'd in his opening ears, And stunn'd him with the music of the Spheres... Who finds not Providence all-good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies?

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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.

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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.

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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.

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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.

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Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.

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Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.

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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!

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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

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But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse; Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.

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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.

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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.

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Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.

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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.

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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

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