"So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was God or Devil."

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"Lord of humankind."

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"Happy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe."

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"He rais'd a mortal to the skies, She drew an angel down."

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"Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead."

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"As sure as a gun."

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"His hair just grizzled, As in a green old age."

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"I can enjoy her while she 's kind; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes the wings and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away."

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"Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury."

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"I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran."

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"For every inch that is not fool is rogue."

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"Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour."

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"Arms and the man I sing, who, forced by fate And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate."

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"And, like another Helen, fir'd another Troy."

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"Death in itself is nothing; but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where."

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"Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own; He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day."

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"I have a soul that like an ample shield Can take in all, and verge enough for more."

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"A knock-down argument: 't is but a word and a blow."

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"Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long,-- Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner. Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years, Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more; Till like a clock worn out with eating time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still."

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"Beware the fury of a patient man."

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"And torture one poor word ten thousand ways."

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"When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow 's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. Strange cozenage! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give."

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"Look round the habitable world: how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue."

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"Your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me."

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"He 's a sure card."

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"Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain."

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"Than a successive title long and dark, Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark."

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"But Shadwell never deviates into sense."

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"Whatever is, is in its causes just."

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"Sigh'd and look'd, and sigh'd again."

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"She hugg'd the offender, and forgave the offence: Sex to the last."

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"What precious drops are those Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their infant dew?"

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"Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from his high estate, And welt'ring in his blood; Deserted, at his utmost need, By those his former bounty fed, On the bare earth expos'd he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes."

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"I am resolved to grow fat, and look young till forty."

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"Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are."

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"Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line."

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"Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,-- Sweet is pleasure after pain."

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"Not only hating David, but the king."

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"The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise."

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"Bless the hand that gave the blow."

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"The spectacles of books."

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"Of seeming arms to make a short essay, Then hasten to be drunk,--the business of the day."

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"From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man."

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"'T is not for nothing that we life pursue; It pays our hopes with something still that 's new."

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"Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below."

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"Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence."

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"Thespis, the first professor of our art, At country wakes sung ballads from a cart."

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"Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend."

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"A very merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time."

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"Bacchus, ever fair and ever young."

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