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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.

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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.

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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.

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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.

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False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.

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

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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.

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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.

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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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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.

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Every woman is at heart a rake.

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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.

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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.

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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.

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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

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And write about it, Goddess, and about it!

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Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

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There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.

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