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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.

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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,–a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Act Appear Comedy Dull Noise World

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