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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies,
And catch the manners living as they rise;
Laugh where we must, be...
Health consists with temperance alone.
Source: In
For Forms of Government let fools contest;
Whate'er is best administer'd is best.
How here he sipped, how there he plundered snug,
And sucked all o'er, like an industrious...
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it not only is useless, but it impairs what it would...
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
Source: Said to George Lyttleton, 15...
Happy the man whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air,
In his own...
If to her share some female errors fall,
Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Curst be the verse, how well soe'er it flow,
That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
Here files of pins extend their shining rows,
Puffs, powders, patches, bibles,...
Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey,
Dost sometimes counsel take - and sometimes...
He himself one vile antithesis.
Source: Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, 325
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Is not absence death to those who love?
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And, without sneering, teach the rest to...
Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!
Source: An Essay on Criticism,...
Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?
Source: Elegy to the Memory of an...
He saw, he wish'd, and to the prize aspir'd.
Resolv'd to win, he meditates the way,
By force to ravish, or by...
It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in...