Some by Old Words to Fame have made Pretence;
Ancients in Phrase, meer Moderns in their Sense!
(An Essay On Criticism)
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The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.Alexander Pope
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Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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