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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.

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What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?

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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

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

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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.

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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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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.

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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.

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Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.

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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.

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

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Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.

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

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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.

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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

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True self-love and social are the same.

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At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

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Die of a rose in aromatic pain.

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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

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