"Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky."

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"Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will extends his boundless grace."

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"And truths divine came mended from that tongue."

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"Achilles absent was Achilles still."

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"All, soon or late, are doom'd that path to tread."

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"Dogs, ye have had your day!"

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"And every eye Gaz'd, as before some brother of the sky."

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"His native home deep imag'd in his soul."

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"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

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"And taste The melancholy joy of evils past: For he who much has suffer'd, much will know."

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"Jove weighs affairs of earth in dubious scales, And the good suffers while the bad prevails."

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"But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend."

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"A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue."

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"Strong are her sons, though rocky are her shores."

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"So ends the bloody business of the day."

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"He ceas'd; but left so pleasing on their ear His voice, that list'ning still they seem'd to hear."

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"In ev'ry sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight."

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"Thin airy shoals of visionary ghosts."

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"Respect us human, and relieve us poor."

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"But sure the eye of time beholds no name So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame."

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"The first in glory, as the first in place."

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"Let him, oraculous, the end, the way, The turns of all thy future fate display."

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"Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar."

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"And wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile."

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"No more was seen the human form divine."

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"Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery."

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"And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the sky."

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"Rare gift! but oh what gift to fools avails!"

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"And would'st thou evil for his good repay?"

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"It never was our guise To slight the poor, or aught humane despise."

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"A decent boldness ever meets with friends."

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"And pines with thirst amidst a sea of waves."

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"What mighty woes To thy imperial race from woman rose!"

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"The windy satisfaction of the tongue."

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"Soft as some song divine thy story flows."

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"Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return."

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"Lotus, the name; divine, nectareous juice!"

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"Earth sounds my wisdom and high heaven my fame."

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"There in the bright assemblies of the skies."

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"For fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are misery and man!"

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"For love deceives the best of womankind."

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"In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!"

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"Far from gay cities and the ways of men."

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"And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind, The last and hardest conquest of the mind."

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"Heav'd on Olympus tott'ring Ossa stood; On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood."

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"Behold on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong!"

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"The ruins of himself! now worn away With age, yet still majestic in decay."

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"Oh woman, woman! when to ill thy mind Is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend."

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"Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away."

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"Just are the ways of Heaven: from Heaven proceed The woes of man; Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed,-- A theme of future song!"

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