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

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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.

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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.

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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?

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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!

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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!

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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.

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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.

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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.

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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.

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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!

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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.

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Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.

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Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.

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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good.

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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 is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.

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Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?

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