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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.

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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

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A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.

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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!

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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.

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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?

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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.

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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.

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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.

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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

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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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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.

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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

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A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!

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