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Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas :
And more true joy Marcellus exiled feels
Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels.

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If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shin'd, The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind! Or, ravish'd with the whistling of a name,1 See Cromwell, damn'd to everlasting fame!2 Epistle iv. Line 281.

Know then this truth (enough for man to know), "Virtue alone is happiness below."

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Never elated while one man's oppress'd;

Never dejected while another's bless'd.

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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through nature up to nature's God.3 Epistle iv. Line 331.

Form'd by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe.1 Epistle iv. Line 379.

1 Charm'd with the foolish whistling of a name. Cowley, Trans. Georgies, Book ii. Line 458. 2 May see thee now, though late, redeem thy name, And glorify what else is damn'd to fame.

Savage, Character of Foster. 3 You will find that it is the modest, not the presumptuous inquirer, who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows nature and nature's God - that is, he follows God in his works and in his word. Bolingbroke, A Letter to Mr. Pope. See Dryden, The Art of Poetry, C. i. Line 75.

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Say, shall my little bark attendant sail,

Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale?

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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

That virtue only makes our bliss below,

And all our knowledge is, ourselves to know.

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MORAL ESSAYS.

To observations which ourselves we make, We grow more partial for the observer's sake.

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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.

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Half our knowledge we must snatch, not take. Epistle i. Line 40.

'T is from high life high characters are drawn ; A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.

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

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Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.1

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1 Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis. Matthias Borbonius, in the Delicia Poetarum Germanorum, i. 685.

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Odious! in woollen ! 't would a saint provoke,
Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke.
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And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath
Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death.
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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it,
If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.

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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it

Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

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Fine by defect, and delicately weak.1

With too much quickness ever to be taught ; With too much thinking to have common thought. Epistle ii. Line 97.

To heirs unknown descends th' unguarded store, Or wanders, heaven-directed, to the poor.

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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour,
Content to dwell in decencies forever.

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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take;

But every woman is at heart a rake.

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1 Fine by degrees, and beautifully less.

Prior, Henry and Emma.

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See how the world its veterans rewards!

A youth of frolics, an old age of cards.

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O! bless'd with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.

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She who ne'er answers till a husband cools,
Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules.

And mistress of herself, though china fall.

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Woman 's at best a contradiction still.

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Who shall decide, when doctors disagree,
And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply!
That lends corruption lighter wings to fly.

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But thousands die without or this or that,
Die, and endow a college or a cat.

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

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Extremes in nature equal good produce;
Extremes in man concur to general use.

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Rise, honest muse! and sing The Man of Ross.

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Ye little stars! hide your

diminish'd

rays.1

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Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name. Epistle iii. Line 285.

In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung.
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Where London's column, pointing at the skies,
Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven,
And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite,

Who never mentions hell to ears polite.2

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Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere,
In action faithful, and in honour clear;
Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end,
Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.

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1 See Milton, Par. Lost, Book iv. Line 34.

2 In the reign of Charles II. a certain worthy divine at Whitehall thus addressed himself to the auditory at the conclusion of his sermon: - "In short, if you don't live up to the precepts of the Gospel, but abandon yourselves to your irregular appetites, you must expect to receive your reward in a certain place which 't is not good manners to mention here." - Tom Brown, Laconics.