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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.

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There various news I heard of love and strife,Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,Of loss and gain, of famine and of store,Of storms at sea, and travels on the shore,Of prodigies, and portents seen in air,Of fires and plagues, and stars with blazing hair,Of turns of fortune, changes in the state,The fall of favourites, projects of the great,Of aid mismanagements, taxations new:All neither wholly false, nor wholly true.

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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.

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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.

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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

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

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A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!

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So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal; 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.

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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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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.

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Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.

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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.

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There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.

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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!

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Genius creates, and taste preserves.

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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.

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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.

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