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Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.

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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.

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A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.

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Hope springs eternal.

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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.

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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

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Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.

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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.

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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.

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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!

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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.

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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.

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On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.

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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.

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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.

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Virtue alone is happiness below.

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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.

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