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/ page 554 of 1205 /Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage: leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.
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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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At every word a reputation dies.
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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I am his Highness dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
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