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Essay on Man continued.]

In Faith and Hope the world will disagree,
But all mankind's concern is charity.

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O happiness! our being's end and aim!
Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name:
That something still which prompts th' eternal

sigh,

For which we bear to live, or dare to die.

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Order is Heaven's first law.

the joys of sense,

Reason's whole pleasure, all

Lie in three words-health, peace, and compe

tence.

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The soul's calm sunshine and the heartfelt joy.

Epistle iv. Line 168. Honour and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honour lies. Epistle iv. Line 193.

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunello.

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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards.

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A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod;

An honest man 's the noblest work of God.1 Epistle iv. Line 247.

Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart: One self-approving hour whole years outweighs

1 See Fletcher, Upon an Honest Man's Fortune.

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Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas :
And more true joy Marcellus exiled feels
Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels.

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If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shin'd, The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind! Or, ravish'd with the whistling of a name,1 See Cromwell, damn'd to everlasting fame! 2 Epistle iv. Line 281.

Know then this truth (enough for man to know), "Virtue alone is happiness below."

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Never elated while one man's oppress'd;

Never dejected while another's bless'd.

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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through nature up to nature's God.3 Epistle iv. Line 331.

Form'd by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe.* Epistle iv. Line 379.

1 Charm'd with the foolish whistling of a name. Cowley, Trans. Georgics, Book ii. Line 458. 2 May see thee now, though late, redeem thy name, And glorify what else is damn'd to fame.

Savage, Character of Foster. 3 You will find that it is the modest, not the presumptuous inquirer, who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows nature and nature's God—that is, he follows God in his works and in his word. — Bolingbroke, A Letter to Mr. Pope.

* See Dryden, The Art of Poetry, C. i. Line 75.

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Say, shall my little bark attendant sail,

Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale?

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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

That virtue only makes our bliss below,

And all our knowledge is, ourselves to know.

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MORAL ESSAYS.

To observations which ourselves we make,
We grow more partial for the observer's sake.

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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.

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Half our knowledge we must snatch, not take. Epistle i. Line 40.

'Tis from high life high characters are drawn ; A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.

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'Tis education forms the common mind: Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

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Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.1

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1 Tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis.

Borbonius.

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Odious! in woollen ! 't would a saint provoke, Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke. Epistle i. Line 246.

And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath
Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death.
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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it,
If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.

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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it

Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

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Fine by defect, and delicately weak.1

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With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought. Epistle ii. Line 97.

To heirs unknown descends th' unguarded store, Or wanders, heaven-directed, to the poor.

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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour,

Content to dwell in decencies forever.

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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take;

But every woman is at heart a rake.

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1 Fine by degrees, and beautifully less.

Prior, Henry and Emma.

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See how the world its veterans rewards!

A youth of frolics, an old age of cards.

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O! bless'd with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.

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She who ne'er answers till a husband cools,
Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules.

And mistress of herself, though china fall.

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Woman's at best a contradiction still.

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Who shall decide, when doctors disagree,
And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply!

That lends corruption lighter wings to fly.

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But thousands die without or this or that,
Die, and endow a college or a cat.

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The ruling passion, be it what it will,
The ruling passion conquers reason still.

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Extremes in nature equal good produce;
Extremes in man concur to general use.

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