Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.


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Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
ALEXANDER POPE
Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
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Hence the fool's paradise, the statesman's scheme, The air-built castle, and the golden dream, ...
ALEXANDER POPE
In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
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What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things.
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No question is ever settled Until it is settled right.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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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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One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one ...
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing...
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The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that ...
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Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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What beck'ning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
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Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane.
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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The balmy zephyrs, silent since her death, Lament the ceasing of a sweeter breath.
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I have more zeal than wit.
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Zeal then, not charity, became the guide.
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where o...
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Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
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For fools admire, but me of sense approve.
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Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed.
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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall de...
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing...
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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.
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Fine by defect, and delicately weak.
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