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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.

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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.

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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.

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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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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me; Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.

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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.

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What will a child learn sooner than a song?

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The villain's censure is extorted praise.

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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.

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Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it

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To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.

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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.

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Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.

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