If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

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Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

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Honor and shame from no condition rise.
Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.

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Trust not your self; but your Defects to know, Make use of ev'ry Friend — and ev'ry Foe.

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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

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