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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.

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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

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Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.

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Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.

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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.

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And die of nothing but a rage to live.

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I have more zeal than wit.

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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.

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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

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What will a child learn sooner than a song?

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Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.

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

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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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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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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!

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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me; Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.

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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.

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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?

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