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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.

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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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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.

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True self-love and social are the same.

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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.

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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.

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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.

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The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.

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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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So upright Quakers please both man and God.

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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.

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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.

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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!

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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.

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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.

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There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.

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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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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.

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