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

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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.

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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.

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No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly: What the advantage, if his finer eyes Study a Mite, not comprehend the Skies?... Or quick Effluvia darting thro' his brain, Die of a Rose, in Aromatic pain? If Nature thunder'd in his opening ears, And stunn'd him with the music of the Spheres... Who finds not Providence all-good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies?

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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

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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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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

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Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.

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There is a majesty in simplicity.

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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.

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Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.

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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.

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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

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The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.

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As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.

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For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best.

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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

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The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.

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