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"Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand."
Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 261.
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"If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shin'd, The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind! Or ravish'd with the whistling of a name, See Cromwell, damn'd to everlasting fame!"
Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 281.
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"Know then this truth (enough for man to know),-- "Virtue alone is happiness below.""
Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 309.
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"Never elated when one man 's oppress'd; Never dejected while another 's bless'd."
Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 323.
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"Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God."
Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 331.
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"Form'd by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe."
Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 379.
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"Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph and partake the gale?"
Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 385.
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"Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend."
Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 390.
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"That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know."
Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 397.
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"To observations which ourselves we make, We grow more partial for th' observer's sake."
Moral Essays. Epistle i. Line 11.
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"Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect."
Moral Essays. Epistle i. Line 20.
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"In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take."
Moral Essays. Epistle i. Line 39.
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"Not always actions show the man; we find Who does a kindness is not therefore kind."
Moral Essays. Epistle i. Line 109.
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"Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,-- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies."
Moral Essays. Epistle i. Line 115.
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"'T is from high life high characters are drawn; A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn."
Moral Essays. Epistle i. Line 135.
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"'T is education forms the common mind: Just as the twig is bent the tree 's inclined."
Moral Essays. Epistle i. Line 149.
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"Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times."
Moral Essays. Epistle i. Line 172.
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""Odious! in woollen! 't would a saint provoke," Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke."
Moral Essays. Epistle i. Line 246.
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"And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death."
Moral Essays. Epistle i. Line 262.
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"Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it."
Moral Essays. Epistle ii. Line 15.
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"Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute."
Moral Essays. Epistle ii. Line 19.
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"Fine by defect, and delicately weak."
Moral Essays. Epistle ii. Line 43.
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"With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought."
Moral Essays. Epistle ii. Line 97.
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"Atossa, cursed with every granted prayer, Childless with all her children, wants an heir; To heirs unknown descends the unguarded store, Or wanders heaven-directed to the poor."
Moral Essays. Epistle ii. Line 147.
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"Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, Content to dwell in decencies forever."
Moral Essays. Epistle ii. Line 163.
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"Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake."
Moral Essays. Epistle ii. Line 215.
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"See how the world its veterans rewards! A youth of frolics, an old age of cards."
Moral Essays. Epistle ii. Line 243.
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"Oh, blest with temper whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day!"
Moral Essays. Epistle ii. Line 257.
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"Most women have no characters at all."
Moral Essays. Epistle ii. Line 2.
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"She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or if she rules him, never shows she rules."
Moral Essays. Epistle ii. Line 261.
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"And mistress of herself though china fall."
Moral Essays. Epistle ii. Line 268.
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"Woman 's at best a contradiction still."
Moral Essays. Epistle ii. Line 270.
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"Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?"
Moral Essays. Epistle iii. Line 1.
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"Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly."
Moral Essays. Epistle iii. Line 39.
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"P. What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. B. What more? P. Meat, fine clothes, and fire."
Moral Essays. Epistle iii. Line 79.
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"But thousands die without or this or that,-- Die, and endow a college or a cat."
Moral Essays. Epistle iii. Line 95.
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"The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still."
Moral Essays. Epistle iii. Line 153.
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"Extremes in Nature equal good produce; Extremes in man concur to general use."
Moral Essays. Epistle iii. Line 161.
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"Rise, honest muse! and sing The Man of Ross."
Moral Essays. Epistle iii. Line 250.
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"Ye little stars! hide your diminish'd rays."
Moral Essays. Epistle iii. Line 282.
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"Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name."
Moral Essays. Epistle iii. Line 285.
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"In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung."
Moral Essays. Epistle iii. Line 299.
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"Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies."
Moral Essays. Epistle iii. Line 339.
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"Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven."
Moral Essays. Epistle iv. Line 43.
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"To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite."
Moral Essays. Epistle iv. Line 149.
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"Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend."
Epistle to Mr. Addison. Line 67.
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"'T is with our judgments as our watches,--none Go just alike, yet each believes his own."
Essay on Criticism. Part i. Line 9.
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"One science only will one genius fit: So vast is art, so narrow human wit."
Essay on Criticism. Part i. Line 60.
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"From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art."
Essay on Criticism. Part i. Line 152.
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"Those oft are stratagems which errors seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream."
Essay on Criticism. Part i. Line 177.
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