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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.

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And write about it, Goddess, and about it!

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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.

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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

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

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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.

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This long disease, my life.

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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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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

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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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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.

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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.

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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.

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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.

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

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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.

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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

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