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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reas..
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mankind
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No place so scared from such frops is barred Nor is Paul's Church more safe than Paul's Churchyard
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They dream in Courtship, but in Wedlock wake.
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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.
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How vast a memory has Love!
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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!
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Each finding like a friendSomething to blame, and something to commend.
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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide, Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit, a Man; Simplicity, a Child.
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Ye Gods! annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
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The garlands fade, the vows are worn away; So dies her love, and so my hopes decay.
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To err is human, to forgive divine.
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Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began A mighty hunter, and his prey was man.
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Ignobly vain, and impotently great.
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Now lap-dogs give themselves the rousing shake, And sleepless lovers, just at twelve, awake.
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They shift the moving toyshop of their heart.
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This casket India's glowing gems unlocks And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore.
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Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay.
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At every word a reputation dies.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Let spades be trumps! she said, and trumps they were.
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Coffee, which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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But when mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill!
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes; The glorious fault of Angels and of Gods.
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On all the line a sudden vengeance waits, And frequent hearses shall besiege your gates.
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To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense, is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
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The most positive men are the most credulous...
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To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.
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Party is the madness of many, for the gain of a few.
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Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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