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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good.

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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.

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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.

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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.

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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.

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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.

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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

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

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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.

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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.

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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.

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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue

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