Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie.

Alexander Pope in Ode to Solitude
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A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

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'Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool.
But you yourself may serve to show it,
Every fool is not a poet.'

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It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.

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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

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