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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.

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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.

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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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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.

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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!

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

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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?

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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.

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

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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.

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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.

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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.

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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.

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It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.

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See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.

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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

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