"Old Grimes is dead, that good old man We never shall see more; He used to wear a long black coat All buttoned down before."

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"Some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid to join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line."

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"Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute."

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"Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er."

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"Oh, blest with temper whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day!"

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"Coffee, which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes."

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"Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state."

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"Remembrance and reflection how allied! What thin partitions sense from thought divide!"

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"Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale."

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"No creature smarts so little as a fool."

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"Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land."

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"Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?"

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"All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul."

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"The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line."

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"All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good; And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right."

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"Those oft are stratagems which errors seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream."

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"To observations which ourselves we make, We grow more partial for th' observer's sake."

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"Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use."

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"A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again."

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"Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan."

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"Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield."

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"Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood."

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"Ye little stars! hide your diminish'd rays."

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"Know then this truth (enough for man to know),-- "Virtue alone is happiness below.""

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"Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind; What the weak head with strongest bias rules,-- Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools."

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"Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly."

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"Is there a parson much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross?"

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"And make each day a critic on the last."

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"Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne."

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"Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he?"

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"See how the world its veterans rewards! A youth of frolics, an old age of cards."

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"Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise? 'T is but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel our own."

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"Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake."

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"Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know?"

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"Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot."

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"And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest."

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"Not always actions show the man; we find Who does a kindness is not therefore kind."

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"Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world."

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"Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunello."

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"The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head."

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"She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or if she rules him, never shows she rules."

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"Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph and partake the gale?"

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

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"On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale."

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"Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust."

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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."

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"What can ennoble sots or slaves or cowards? Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards."

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"Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies."

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"Woman 's at best a contradiction still."

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"In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel."

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