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Not to admire, is all the art I know To make men happy, or to keep them so. Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago; And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach From his translation; but had none admired, Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired?

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Eat, drink and love...the rest is not worth a nickel

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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

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We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

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A drop of ink may make a million think.

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Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

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A little still she strove, and much repented, And whispering “I will ne'er consent”—consented.

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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

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