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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.

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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life; A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil; Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.

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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

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Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.

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And empty heads console with empty sound.

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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.

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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.

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Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own

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Whatever is, is right.

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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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Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.

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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.

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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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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.

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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.

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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.

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