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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.

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All chance, direction, which thou canst not see

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Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.

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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.

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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.

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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.

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

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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide; Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.

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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.

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Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.

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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

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Virtue alone is happiness below.

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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

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Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.

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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.

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Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.

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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

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