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Tis education forms the common mind,
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth...
All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body nature is, and God the soul.
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser...
Tis with our judgements as our watches, none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring
Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess...
All seems infected that th'infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
A vast, vamped future, old, revived new piece.
Source: The Dunciad, Bk i. 284
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A heap of dust alone remains of thee;
'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
All gardening is landscape painting.
Source: Joseph Spence's 'Anecdotes'
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
Source: The Dunciad, Bk iv. 90
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Ambition first sprung from your bless'd abodes;
The glorious fault of angels and of...
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Act well your part; there all honor lies.
Source: In
All nature is but art unknown to thee,
All chance direction which thou canst not see;
All discord, harmony not...
As some to church repair,
Not for the doctrine, but the music there.
Source: An...
And he whose fustian's so sublimely bad
It is not poetry, but prose run mad.
And all who told it added something new,
And all who heard it, made enlargements too.
Alike reserved to blame, or to commend,
A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend;
Dreading e'en fools, by...