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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?

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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

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

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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

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What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.

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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

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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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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!

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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.

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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.

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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.

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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.

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Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.

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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.

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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.

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In death a hero, as in life a friend!

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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.

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

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