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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.

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One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.

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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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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please; Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.

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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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No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.

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Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.

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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?

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Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.

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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.

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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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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.

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I have more zeal than wit.

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There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.

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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

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