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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.

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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

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So upright Quakers please both man and God.

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I have more zeal than wit.

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Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?

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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

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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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Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?

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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.

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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.

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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.

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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

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When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.

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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

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