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“To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.”2.
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“Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.”3.
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“Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.”4.
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“The fool is happy that he knows no more.”5.
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“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.”6.
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“The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jury-men may dine.”7.
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“Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise; His pride in reasoning, not in acting, lies.”8.
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“One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit.”9.
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“Order is Heavens' first law.”10.
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“Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.”11.
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“The people' voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.”12.
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“Know then myself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man.”13.
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“True friendship's laws are by this rule expressed, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.”14.
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“A Wit's a feather, and a Chief a rod; An honest Man's the noblest work of God.”15.
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“While pensive Poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.”16.
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“I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray, tell me sir, whose dog are you?”17.
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“Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake: Men, some to quiet, some to public strife; But every lady would be queen for life.”18.
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“And he, whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad.”19.
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“The ruling Passion, be it what it will, The ruling Passion conquers Reason still.”20.
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“Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor shall be.”21.
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“As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine but the music there.”22.
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“True Wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, bet ne'er so well expressed.”23.
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“Words are like leave; and where they most abound; Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.”24.
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“Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.”25.
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“All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.”
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