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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!
A mighty maze! But not without a plan.
Genius involves both envy and calumny.
The zeal of fools offends at any time.
And die of nothing but a rage to live.
Health consists with temperance alone.
The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
Woman's at best a contradiction still.
And make each day a critic on the last.
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
No more was seen the human form divine.
True self-love and social are the same.
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
Consult the Genius of the Place in all.
Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
Superstition is the spleen of the soul.
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Is not absence death to those who love?
Most authors steal their works, or buy.
Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
Every professional was once an amateur.
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
No creature smarts so little as a fool.
A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.
Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
No craving void left aching in the soul.
The enormous faith of many made for one.
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
And empty heads console with empty sound.
It is sure the hardest science to forget!
The villain's censure is extorted praise.
The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.