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So upright Quakers please both man and God.

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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

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Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise? 'T is but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?

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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.

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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.

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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

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Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.

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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

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The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

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The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.

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A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.

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So perish all who do the like again.

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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.

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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!

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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them

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