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- Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder,…
- No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly: What…
- We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
- The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
- The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through…
- Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
- True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That…
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