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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.

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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.

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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.

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Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

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Health consists with temperance alone.

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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.

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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.

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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.

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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.

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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.

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There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.

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Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.

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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair.

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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

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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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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

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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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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

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