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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
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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! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
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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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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer
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It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.
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It is with our judgments as with our watches; no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
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In words as fashions the same rule will hold,Alike fantastic if too new or oldBe not the first by whome the new are tried,Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise.
Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
By Alexander Pope
Hither the heroes and nymphs resort,To taste awhile the pleasures of a courtIn various talk th'instuctive hours they past,Who gave the ball, or paid the visit lastOne speaks the glory of the British Queen,And one describes a charming Indian screenlA third interprets motions, looks and eyesAt every word a reputation dies.
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