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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.

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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.

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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

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Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.

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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.

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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.

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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly!

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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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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.

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A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.

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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.

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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.

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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.

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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.

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She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.

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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.

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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

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

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Never find fault with the absent.

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