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How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.

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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.

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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.

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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.

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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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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

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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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Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.

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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.

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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.

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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

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"With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"-She wants a heart.

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The proper study of Mankind is Man.

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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

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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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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.

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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.

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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.

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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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