"With ravish'd ears The monarch hears; Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres."

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"Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray."

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"And raw in fields the rude militia swarms, Mouths without hands; maintain'd at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence; Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And ever but in times of need at hand."

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"Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying. If all the world be worth the winning, Think, oh think it worth enjoying: Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee."

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"This is the porcelain clay of humankind."

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"And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm."

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"And kind as kings upon their coronation day."

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"She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, Grows cold even in the summer of her age."

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"Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child."

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"He was exhal'd; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew."

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"For truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be lov'd needs only to be seen."

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"And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind."

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"Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the former two."

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"Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,-- As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas."

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"Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace."

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"The true Amphitryon."

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"Whistling to keep myself from being afraid."

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"Forgiveness to the injured does belong; But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong."

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"All delays are dangerous in war."

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"O gracious God! how far have we Profan'd thy heavenly gift of poesy!"

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"So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there."

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"Be kind to my remains; and oh defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend!"

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"She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, Can draw you to her with a single hair."

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"Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch."

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"When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!"

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"Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven, Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest."

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"Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife, Soon taught the sweet civilities of life."

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"And new-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care Turn'd by a gentle fire and roasted rare."

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"For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss."

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"His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen."

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"For pity melts the mind to love."

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"Men are but children of a larger growth."

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"Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire."

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"Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view?"

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"Disparting towers Trembling all precipitate down dash'd, Rattling around, loud thundering to the moon."

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"A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave."

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"A man's ingress into the world is naked and bare, His progress through the world is trouble and care; And lastly, his egress out of the world, is nobody knows where. If we do well here, we shall do well there: I can tell you no more if I preach a whole year."

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"How pure the joy, when first my hands unfold The small, rare volume, black with tarnished gold!"

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"The princeps copy, clad in blue and gold."

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"Now cheaply bought for thrice their weight in gold."

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"Torn from their destined page (unworthy meed Of knightly counsel and heroic deed)."

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"Man is his own star; and that soul that can Be honest is the only perfect man."

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"Drink to-day, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do 't to-morrow."

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"All things that are Made for our general uses are at war,-- Even we among ourselves."

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"Hide, oh, hide those hills of snow Which thy frozen bosom bears, On whose tops the pinks that grow Are of those that April wears! But first set my poor heart free, Bound in those icy chains by thee."

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"And he that will to bed go sober Falls with the leaf still in October."

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"Deeds, not words."

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"Something given that way."

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"Hit the nail on the head."

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"There 's naught in this life sweet, If man were wise to see 't, But only melancholy; O sweetest Melancholy!"

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