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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

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Vast chain of Being, which from God began, Natures aethereal, human, angel, man,...

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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance....

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'Tis education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

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Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common track....

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The Muse but served to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease, my life;

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Tell me, my soul, can this be death?

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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age:...

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Most souls, 'tis true, but peep out once an age, Dull sullen pris'ners in the body's cage:...

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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

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Die of a rose in aromatic pain?

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But all subsists by elemental strife; And Passions are the elements of Life.

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Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of Kings....

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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.

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By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.

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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.

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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.

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Sir, I admit to your general rule that every poet is a fool. But you yourself may serve to show it that not every fool is a poet.

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All seems infected that the infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

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

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A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

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Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy also show to me.

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Hither the heroes and nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court; In various talk th' instuctive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British Queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen A third interprets motions, looks and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.

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

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