"He from whose lips divine persuasion flows."

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"To happy convents bosom'd deep in vines, Where slumber abbots purple as their wines."

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"Gentle of speech, beneficent of mind."

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"And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke."

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"He held his seat,--a friend to human race."

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"How lov'd, how honour'd once avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee: 'T is all thou art, and all the proud shall be!"

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"As full-blown poppies, overcharg'd with rain, Decline the head, and drooping kiss the plain,-- So sinks the youth; his beauteous head, deprest Beneath his helmet, drops upon his breast."

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"The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease."

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"'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth."

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"Ajax the great . . . Himself a host."

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"The life which others pay let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe."

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"This, this is misery! the last, the worst That man can feel."

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"There with commutual zeal we both had strove In acts of dear benevolence and love: Brothers in peace, not rivals in command."

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"Unwept, unhonour'd, uninterr'd he lies!"

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"She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen."

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"Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes."

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"Like strength is felt from hope and from despair."

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"Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole."

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"To hide their ignominious heads in Troy."

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"Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold: Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold, Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway, Can bribe the poor possession of a day."

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"Plough the watery deep."

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"When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one."

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"E'en copious Dryden wanted or forgot The last and greatest art,--the art to blot."

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

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"Father of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord."

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"Years following years steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away."

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"Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies; And sure he will: for Wisdom never lies."

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"And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies."

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"A wealthy priest, but rich without a fault."

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"Another, yet the same."

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"For never, never, wicked man was wise."

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"Words that wise Bacon or brave Raleigh spoke."

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"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame."

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"A mass enormous! which in modern days No two of earth's degenerate sons could raise."

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"And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will."

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"Who pants for glory finds but short repose: A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows."

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"Next o'er his books his eyes begin to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole."

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"Or where the pictures for the page atone, And Quarles is sav'd by beauties not his own."

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"Bare the mean heart that lurks behind a star."

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"For he lives twice who can at once employ The present well, and e'en the past enjoy."

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"And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show."

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"Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,-- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise."

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"Hark! they whisper; angels say, Sister spirit, come away!"

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"Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies."

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"Ah, youth! forever dear, forever kind."

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"O thou, whose certain eye foresees The fix'd events of fate's remote decrees."

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"And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air."

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"A green old age, unconscious of decays, That proves the hero born in better days."

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"To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe."

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"Injustice, swift, erect, and unconfin'd, Sweeps the wide earth, and tramples o'er mankind."

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