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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.

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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.

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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

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Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.

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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.

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Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.

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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!

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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.

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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.

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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.

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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.

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How vast a memory has Love!

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