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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.

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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!

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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.

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Cavil you may, but never criticise.

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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.

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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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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.

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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.

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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.

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Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.

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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?

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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.

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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.

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Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.

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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.

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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

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

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