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

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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.

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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.

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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.

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As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.

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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

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The proper study of Mankind is Man.

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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

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A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also. JOHN LOCKE, "Of a King", The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political 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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Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.

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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.

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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.

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

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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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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?

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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.

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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!

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