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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

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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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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.

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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are proud; if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.

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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!

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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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Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

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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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Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it

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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.

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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.

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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.

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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.

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No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.

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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain

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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.

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