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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.

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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.

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Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.

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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.

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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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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.

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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.

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Cavil you may, but never criticise.

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Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.

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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

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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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This long disease, my life.

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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.

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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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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!

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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair.

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

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Virtue alone is happiness below.

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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.

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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.

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