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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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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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Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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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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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.

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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

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If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.

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Music is love in search of a word.

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

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'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest

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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

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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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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie.

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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

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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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