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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.

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

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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.

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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

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To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence.

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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.

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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

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The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.

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Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.

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Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.

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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.

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There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.

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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.

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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

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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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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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