"Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew."

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"Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend."

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"Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe."

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"'T is from high life high characters are drawn; A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn."

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"The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength."

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"Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace."

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"Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest. The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come."

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"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man."

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"Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?"

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"Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main."

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"And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death."

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"And all Arabia breathes from yonder box."

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"Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be."

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"Destroy his fib or sophistry--in vain! The creature 's at his dirty work again."

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"In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung."

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"But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!"

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"The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine."

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"On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore."

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"If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you 'll forget them all."

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"Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times."

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"Die of a rose in aromatic pain."

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"Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it."

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""Odious! in woollen! 't would a saint provoke," Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke."

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"Never elated when one man 's oppress'd; Never dejected while another 's bless'd."

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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."

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"E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me."

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"The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still."

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"Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song."

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"Fine by defect, and delicately weak."

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"But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company."

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"Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile."

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"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

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"Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies."

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"But thousands die without or this or that,-- Die, and endow a college or a cat."

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"In lazy apathy let stoics boast Their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; Contracted all, retiring to the breast; But strength of mind is exercise, not rest."

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"Honour and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honour lies."

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"Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane."

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"The soul's calm sunshine and the heartfelt joy."

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""On wings of winds came flying all abroad.""

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"Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way."

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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."

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"'T is with our judgments as our watches,--none Go just alike, yet each believes his own."

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"That not in fancy's maze he wander'd long, But stoop'd to truth, and moraliz'd his song."

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"Virtuous and vicious every man must be,-- Few in the extreme, but all in the degree."

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"Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God."

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"Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way."

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"Led by the light of the Mæonian star."

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"For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity."

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"Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man."

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"In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take."

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