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| Plagiarism | Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole, How here he sipp'd, how there he plunder'd snug, And suck'd all o'er like an industrious bug. |
| Plagiarism | With him most authors steal their works, or buy, Garth did not write his own Dispensary. |
| Post | Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose, That well-known name awakens all my woes. |
| Post | Line after line my gushing eye o'erflow, Led thro' a said variety of woe, Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom, Lost in a convent's solitary gloom! |
| Post | Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid. |
| Praise | Solid pudding against empty praise. |
| Praise | To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise! |
| Praise | Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise. |
| Pride | What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. |
| Pride | In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies, All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. |
| Pride | Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day, So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe. |
| Printing | I'll print it, And shame the fools. |
| Progress | Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance. |
| Proverbs | One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit. |
| Proverbs | To err is human, to forgive, divine. |
| Proverbs | Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true. |
| Proverbs | Men would be angels, angels would be gods. |
| Proverbs | Hope springs eternal in the human breast, Man never is, but always to be blest. |
| Proverbs | Chaos of thought and passion all confused. |
| Proverbs | Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes, Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times. |
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