His moral pleases, not his pointed wit;
Forgot his epic, nay Pindaric art,
But still I love the language of his heart.
(Imitations Of Horace: The First Epistle Of The Second Book)
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Mean tho' I am, not wholly so,Since quicken'd by thy breath;
O lead me whereso'er I go,
Thro' this day's life or death!
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The right divine of kings to govern wrong.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundic'd eye.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
Alexander Pope
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