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A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.

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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.

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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.

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When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.

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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

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

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The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.

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

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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.

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I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as such are chiefly sensible, that all Art consists in the Imitation and Study of Nature. On the contrary, People of the common Level of Understanding are principally delighted with the Little Niceties and Fantastical Operations of Art, and constantly think that finest which is least Natural.

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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.

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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.

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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.

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Most authors steal their works, or buy.

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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.

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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.

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