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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.

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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

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Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

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

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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.

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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.

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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.

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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair.

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Education forms the common mind.

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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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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.

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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.

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That each from other differs, first confess; next that he varies from himself no less.

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Is not absence death to those who love?

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In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.

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

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The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.

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