"Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail."
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"Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents of reproof; Let ragged wit a mute become, When wealth and power would have her dumb."
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"With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull."
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"Genius is independent of situation."
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"Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame."
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"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read."
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"To copy faults is want of sense."
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"Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends; He hurts me most who lavishly commends."
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"To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense"
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"Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still."
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"Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind."
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"Childhood, who like an April morn appears, Sunshine and rain, hopes clouded o'er with fears."
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"By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?"
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"There's a strange something, which without a brain Fools feel, and which e'en wise men can't explain, Planted in man, to bind him to that earth, In dearest ties, from whence he drew his birth."
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"Most of those evils we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow."
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"The proud will sooner lose than ask their way."
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"With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought."
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"Fame is nothing but an empty name."
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"Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest."
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"Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest."
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