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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

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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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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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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.

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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.

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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

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Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!

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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.

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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.

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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.

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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please; Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.

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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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Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.

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

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There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.

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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again; The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!

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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

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