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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.

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Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try, And ring suspected vessels ere they buy; But wives, a random choice, untried they take; They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake; Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away, And all the woman glares in open day.

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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.

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Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.

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It is sure the hardest science to forget!

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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.

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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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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.

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Wit is the lowest form of humor.

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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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The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

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Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.

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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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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.

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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.

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