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An Essay on Man - Alexander Pope · Classic Educational Library

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  Speaker 1: Preface to h St. John, Lord Bullingbrook the Design. Having
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  Speaker 1: proposed to write some pieces of human life and manners,
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  Speaker 1: such as to use my Lord Bacon's expression come home
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  Speaker 1: to Men's business and Bosoms, I thought it more satisfactory
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  Speaker 1: to begin with considering man in the abstract, his nature
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  Speaker 1: and his state. Since to prove any moral duty, to
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  Speaker 1: enforce any moral precept, or to examine the perfection or
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  Speaker 1: imperfection of any creature whatsoever, it is necessary first to
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  Speaker 1: know what condition and relation it is placed in, and
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  Speaker 1: what is the proper end and purpose of its being.
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  Speaker 1: The science of human nature is, like all other sciences,
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  Speaker 1: reduce us to a few clear points. There are not
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  Speaker 1: many certain truths in this world. It is therefore in
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  Speaker 1: the anatomy of the mind, as in that of the body,
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  Speaker 1: more good will accrue to mankind by attending to the large,
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  Speaker 1: open and perceptible parts, than by studying too much such
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  Speaker 1: finer nerves and vessels, the conformations and uses of which
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  Speaker 1: will forever escape our observation. The disputes are all upon
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  Speaker 1: these last, and I will venture to say they have
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  Speaker 1: less sharpened the wits than the hearts of men against
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  Speaker 1: each other, and have diminished the practice more than advance
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  Speaker 1: to the theory of morality. If I could flatter myself
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  Speaker 1: that this essay has any merit, it is in steering
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  Speaker 1: between the extremes of doctrines seemingly opposite, in passing away
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  Speaker 1: terms utterly unintelligible, and in forming a temperate, yet not inconsistent,
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  Speaker 1: and a short, yet not imperfect system of ethics. This
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  Speaker 1: I might have done in prose, But I chose verse
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  Speaker 1: and even rhyme for two reasons. The one will appear
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  Speaker 1: obvious that principles, maxims, or precepts so written both strike
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  Speaker 1: the reader more strongly at first and are more easily
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  Speaker 1: retained by him afterwards. The other may seem odd, but
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  Speaker 1: it is true I found I could express them more
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  Speaker 1: shortly this way than in prose itself. And nothing is
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  Speaker 1: more certain than that much of the force, as well
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  Speaker 1: as the grace, of arguments or instructions, depends on their conciseness.
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  Speaker 1: I was unable to treat this part of my subject
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  Speaker 1: more in detail without becoming dry and tedious, or more poetically,
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  Speaker 1: without sacrificing perspicuity to ornament, without wandering from the precision
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  Speaker 1: or breaking the chain of reasoning. If any man can
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  Speaker 1: unite all these without diminution of any of them, I
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  Speaker 1: freely confess he will compass a thing above my capacity.
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  Speaker 1: What is now published is only to be considered as
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  Speaker 1: a general map of man, marking out no more than
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  Speaker 1: the greater parts their extent, their limits, and their connection,
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  Speaker 1: and leaving the particular to be more fully delineated in
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  Speaker 1: the charts which are to follow. Consequently, these epistles in
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  Speaker 1: their progress, if I have health and leisure to make
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  Speaker 1: any progress, will be less dry and more susceptible of
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  Speaker 1: poets ornament. I am here only opening the fountains and
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  Speaker 1: clearing the passage. To deduce the rivers to follow them
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  Speaker 1: in their course, and to observe their effects, may be
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  Speaker 1: a task more agreeable. P end of preface Epistle one,
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  Speaker 1: of the Nature and state of Man with respect to
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  Speaker 1: the universe. Awake my sin, John, leave all meaner things
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  Speaker 1: to low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us,
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  Speaker 1: since life can little more supply than just to look
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  Speaker 1: about us and to die, expatiate free o'er all this
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  Speaker 1: scene of man a mighty maze, but not without a plan,
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  Speaker 1: A wild where weeds and flowers, promiscuous shoot or garden
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  Speaker 1: tempting with forbidden fruit. Together, let us beat this ample field.
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  Speaker 1: Try what the open, what the covert yield? The latent tracks,
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  Speaker 1: the giddy heights. Explore of all who blindly creep or sightless,
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  Speaker 1: soar eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, and
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  Speaker 1: catch the manners living as they rise. Laugh Where we
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  Speaker 1: must be candid? Where we can but vindicate the ways
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  Speaker 1: of God to man? Say first, of God above or
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  Speaker 1: man below? What can we reason? But from what we know?
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  Speaker 1: Of man? What see we but his station here? From
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  Speaker 1: which to reason, or to which refer? Through worlds unnumbered?
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  Speaker 1: Though the God be known, des ours to trace him
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  Speaker 1: only in our own He who through vast immensity can pierce.
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  Speaker 1: See worlds on worlds, compose one universe. Observe how system
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  Speaker 1: into system runs, What other planets circle, other suns? What
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  Speaker 1: varied being people's every star may tell why Heaven has
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  Speaker 1: made us as we are. But of this frame, the
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  Speaker 1: bearings and the ties, the strong connections, nice dependencies, gradations.
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  Speaker 1: Just has thy pervading soul looked through? Or can a
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  Speaker 1: part contain the whole? Is the great chain that draws
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  Speaker 1: all to agree, and drawn supports upheld by God or
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  Speaker 1: thee presumptuous man. The reason wouldst thou find why form'd
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  Speaker 1: so weak, so little, and so blind? First, if thou
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  Speaker 1: canst the harder reason, guess why form'd no weaker, blinder,
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  Speaker 1: and no less ask of thy mother Earth? Why oaks
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  Speaker 1: are made taller or stronger than the weeds they shade?
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  Speaker 1: Or ask of yonder argent fields above? Why jove satellites
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  Speaker 1: are less than Jove of systems? Possible? If tis confessed
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  Speaker 1: that wisdom infinite must form the best where almost full
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  Speaker 1: or not coherent be, and all that rises rise in
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  Speaker 1: due degree, then in the scale of reasoning life tis play.
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  Speaker 1: There must be somewhere such a rank as man, And
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  Speaker 1: all the question wrangle e'er so long is only this,
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  Speaker 1: if God has placed him wrong respecting man, whatever wrong
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  Speaker 1: we call may must be right as relative to all.
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  Speaker 1: In human works, Though labor'd on with pain a thousand movements,
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  Speaker 1: scarce one purpose gain in God's one single can its
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  Speaker 1: end produce yet serves to second to some other use.
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  Speaker 1: So man, who here seems principle alone, perhaps act second
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  Speaker 1: to some sphere unknown, touches some weel, or verges to
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  Speaker 1: some goal. Tis but a part we see, and not
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  Speaker 1: a whole. When the proud steed shall know why man
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  Speaker 1: restrains his fiery course or drives him or the plains,
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  Speaker 1: when the dull ox, why now he breaks the clod
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  Speaker 1: is now a victim and now Egypt's god. Then shall
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  Speaker 1: man's pride and dulness comprehend his actions, passions, being's use
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  Speaker 1: and end? Why doing suffering check'd impelled? And why this
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  Speaker 1: hour a slave, the next a deity. Then say not
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  Speaker 1: man's imperfect heaven in fault. Say rather Man's as perfect
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  Speaker 1: as he ought, his knowledge, measured to his state, and place,
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  Speaker 1: his time a moment, and appoint his space. If to
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  Speaker 1: be perfect in a certain sphere, what matter soon or
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  Speaker 1: all late, or here or there? The blest to day
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  Speaker 1: is as completely so as who began a thousand years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, all
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  Speaker 1: that the page prescrib'd their present state from brutes, what men?
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  Speaker 1: From men? What spirits know? Or who could suffer? Being
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  Speaker 1: here below the lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to day?
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  Speaker 1: Had he thy reason, would he skip and play pleas'd
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  Speaker 1: to the last. He crops the flowery food and licks
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  Speaker 1: the hand just rais'd to shed his blood, Oh blindness
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  Speaker 1: to the future, kindly given that each may fill the
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  Speaker 1: circle mark'd by Heaven, who sees with equal eye as
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  Speaker 1: God of all. A hero perish or a sparrow fall
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  Speaker 1: atoms or systems into ruin hurled, and now a bubble burst,
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  Speaker 1: and now a world hope humbly, then with trembling pinions
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  Speaker 1: sore wait the great teacher death, and God adore what
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  Speaker 1: future bliss He gives not thee to know, but gives
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  Speaker 1: that hope to be thy blessing. Now hope springs eternal
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  Speaker 1: in the human breast man never is, but always to
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  Speaker 1: be blest. The soul, uneasy and confined from home, rests
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  Speaker 1: and expatiates in a life to come. Loathe. The poor
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  Speaker 1: Indian whose untutored mind sees God in clow or hears
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  Speaker 1: him in the wind. His soul proud science, never taught
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  Speaker 1: to stray far as the solar walk or milky way.
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  Speaker 1: Yet simple nature to his hope has given behind the
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  Speaker 1: cloud topp'd hill and humbler Heaven, some safer world in
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  Speaker 1: depths of woods, embraced, some happier island in the watery waste,
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  Speaker 1: where slaves once more their native land. Behold, no fiends torment,
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  Speaker 1: no Christians thirst for gold. To be contents his natural desire,
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  Speaker 1: he asks, no angel's wing, no seraph's fire, but thinks,
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  Speaker 1: admitted to that equal sky, his faithful dog shall bear
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  Speaker 1: him company. Go wiser thou, and in thy scale of sense,
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  Speaker 1: weigh thy opinion against providence, call imperfection. What thou fanciest
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  Speaker 1: such say here he gives too little, there too much?
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  Speaker 1: Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust. Yet cry,
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  Speaker 1: if man's unhappy, God's unjust? If man alone engross not
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  Speaker 1: Heaven's high care alone made perfect here immortal, there snatch
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  Speaker 1: from his hand the balance and the rod rejudge his justice.
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  Speaker 1: Be the God of God, in pride, in reasoning, pride,
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  Speaker 1: our error lies, All quit their sphere and rush into
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  Speaker 1: the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blessed abodes.
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  Speaker 1: Men would be angels, Angels would be god, odds aspiring
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  Speaker 1: to be gods. If angels fell, aspiring to be angels,
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  Speaker 1: men rebel, and who but wishes to invert the laws
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  Speaker 1: of order, sins against the eternal cause? Ask for what
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  Speaker 1: end the heavenly bodies shine earth? For whose use? Pride
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  Speaker 1: answers tis for mine. For me, kind nature wakes her
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  Speaker 1: genial power, suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower
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  Speaker 1: annual for me, the grape, the rose renew, the juice nectarius,
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  Speaker 1: and the balmy dew. For me the mine A thousand
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  Speaker 1: treasures brings for me. Health gushes from a thousand springs,
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  Speaker 1: sees roll to waft me, suns to light me, rise
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  Speaker 1: my foot stool, earth, my canopy, the skies. But errs
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  Speaker 1: not Nature from this gracious end, from burning suns, when
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  Speaker 1: livid deaths descend, when earthquakes swallow, or when tempests sweep
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  Speaker 1: towns to one grave, whole nations to the deep. No, Tis, replied,
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  Speaker 1: The first Almighty cause acts not by partial but by
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  Speaker 1: general laws. The exceptions few. Some change since all began,
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  Speaker 1: and what created perfect? Why then, man, if the great
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  Speaker 1: end be human happiness, then nature deviates, and can man
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  Speaker 1: do less as much that end? A constant course requires
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  Speaker 1: of showers and sunshine, as of man's desire, as much
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  Speaker 1: eternal springs and cloudless skies as men for ever temperate,
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  Speaker 1: calm and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design,
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  Speaker 1: why then a borger or a catiline, who knows but
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  Speaker 1: he whose hand the lightning forms, who heaves old ocean,
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  Speaker 1: and who wings the storms, pours fierce ambition in a
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  Speaker 1: Caesar's mind, or turns young ammon loose to scourge mankind
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  Speaker 1: from pride, from pride our very reasoning springs account for
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  Speaker 1: moral as for natural things. Why charge we heaven in
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  Speaker 1: those in these acquit in both To reason right is
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  Speaker 1: to submit better for us? Perhaps it might peer where
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  Speaker 1: they're all harmony, all virtue here that never air or
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  Speaker 1: ocean felt, the wind that never passion discomposed the mind.
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  Speaker 1: But all subsists by elemental strife and passions are the
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  Speaker 1: elements of life. The general order, since the hole began,
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  Speaker 1: is kept in nature and is kept in man. What
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  Speaker 1: would this man now upward? He will soar, and little
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  Speaker 1: less than angel would be more now looking downwards, Just
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  Speaker 1: as grieved appears to want the strength of bulls, the
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  Speaker 1: fur of bears made for his use, all creatures, if
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  Speaker 1: he call say what their use? Had he the powers
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  Speaker 1: of all nature to the ease without profusion kind, the
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  Speaker 1: proper organs, proper powers assign'd each seeming want compensated of course,
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  Speaker 1: here with degrees of swiftness, bear a force all in
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  Speaker 1: exact proportion to the state, nothing to add and nothing
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  Speaker 1: to abate. Each beast, each insect happy in its own
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  Speaker 1: is heaven unkind to man and man alone. Shall he alone,
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  Speaker 1: whom rational we call, be pleased with nothing? If not
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  Speaker 1: blest with all the bliss of man? Could pride that
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  Speaker 1: blessing find is not to act or think beyond mankind,
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  Speaker 1: no powers of body or of soul to share. But
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  Speaker 1: what is nature and his state can bear? Why has
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  Speaker 1: not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason? Man
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  Speaker 1: is not a fly? Say what the use where finer
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  Speaker 1: optics given to inspector might not comprehend the heaven or touch?
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  Speaker 1: If tremblingly alive, all awe to smart and agonize at
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  Speaker 1: every pore, or quick effluvia darting through the brain, die
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  Speaker 1: of a rose in aromatic pain. If Nature sundered in
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  Speaker 1: his opening ears and stunned him with the music of
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  Speaker 1: the spheres, how would he wish that Heaven had left
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  Speaker 1: him still? The whispering zephyr and the purling rill, who
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  Speaker 1: finds not providence all good and wise alike in what
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  Speaker 1: it gives and what denies, far as creations, ample range extends,
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  Speaker 1: the scale of sensual mental powers ascends, mark how it
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  Speaker 1: mounts to man's imperial race. From the green myriads in
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  Speaker 1: the peopled grass, What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme,
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  Speaker 1: the mole's dim curtain and the lynx's beam of smell?
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  Speaker 1: The headlong lioness between and hound sagacious on the tainted
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  Speaker 1: green of hearing, from the life that fills the flood
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  Speaker 1: to that which warbles through the vernal wood the spiders touch.
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  Speaker 1: How exquisitely fine feels that each thread and lives along
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  Speaker 1: the line in the nice bee. What scents so subtly
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  Speaker 1: true from poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew. How instinct
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  Speaker 1: varies in the groveling swine, compared half reasoning elephant with thine?
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  Speaker 1: TwixT that and reason. What a nice barrier for ever separate,
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  Speaker 1: yet forever near remembrance and reflection, How allayed, What thin
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  Speaker 1: partitions sense from thought, divide and middle natures? How they
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  Speaker 1: long to join, yet never passed the insuperable line. Without
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  Speaker 1: this just gradation, could they be subjected? These to those
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  Speaker 1: or all to thee? The powers of all subdued by
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  Speaker 1: thee alone is not thy reason. All these powers in
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  Speaker 1: one see through this air, this ocean, and this earth,
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  Speaker 1: all matter quick and bursting into birth above how high
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  Speaker 1: progressive life may go around, how wide, how deep extend
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  Speaker 1: below vast chain of being which from God began, Nature's ethereal, human, angel, man, beast, bird, fish, insect.
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  Speaker 1: What no eye can see, no glass can reach from
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  Speaker 1: infinite to thee, from thee to nothing on superior powers,
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  Speaker 1: where we to press inferior might on ours, or in
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  Speaker 1: the full creation, leave a void where one step broken,
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  Speaker 1: the great scales destroyed from Nature's chain. Whatever link you
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  Speaker 1: strike tens or tense breaks the chain alike. And if
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  Speaker 1: each system ingradation roll alike essential to the amazing whole,
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  Speaker 1: the least confusion, but in one not all that system only,
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  Speaker 1: but the whole must fall. Let Earth unbalanced from her orbit, fly,
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  Speaker 1: planets and suns run lawless through the sky. Let ruling
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  Speaker 1: angels from their spheres, behurled being on being wrecked, and
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  Speaker 1: world on world, Heaven's whole foundations to their center, not
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  Speaker 1: and nature tremble to the throne of God. All this
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  Speaker 1: dread order break for whom, for thee vile worm, Oh madness, pride, impiety.
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  Speaker 1: What if the foot ordain'd the dust to tread or
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  Speaker 1: hand to toil, aspired to be the head. What if
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  Speaker 1: the head, the eye, or ear, repined to serve mere
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  Speaker 1: engines to the ruling mind. Just as absurd for any
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  Speaker 1: part to claim to be another in this general frame,
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  Speaker 1: just as absurd to mourn the tasks or pains the
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  Speaker 1: great directing mind of all ordains. All are but parts
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  Speaker 1: of one stupendous hole, whose body nature is and God
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  Speaker 1: the soul that chang'd through all, and yet in all
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  Speaker 1: the same great in the earth as in the ethereal frame,
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  Speaker 1: warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, glows in
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  Speaker 1: the stars, and blossom in the trees, lives through all, Life,
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  Speaker 1: extends through all extent, spreads, undivided, operates, unspent, breathes in
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  Speaker 1: our soul, informs our mortal part, as full as perfect
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  Speaker 1: in a hair, as heart, as full as perfect in
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  Speaker 1: vile man that mourns, as the wrapt seraph that adores
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  Speaker 1: and burns to him, no high, no low, no great,
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  Speaker 1: no small, He fills, he bounds, connects and equals. All cease, then,
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  Speaker 1: nor order, imperfection, name our proper bliss depends on what
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  Speaker 1: we blame. Know thy own point, this mid this due
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  Speaker 1: degree of blindness, weakness Heaven bestows on thee. Submit in
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  Speaker 1: this or any other sphere, secure to be as blest
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  Speaker 1: as thou canst bear, safe in the hand of one
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  Speaker 1: disposing power, or in the natal or the mortal hour.
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  Speaker 1: All nature is but art unknown to thee, all chance,
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  Speaker 1: direction which thou canst not see, all discord, harmony not understood,
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  Speaker 1: all partial evil, universal good, and spite of pride in
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  Speaker 1: erring reason's spite. One truth is clear, whatever is is
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  Speaker 1: right end of Epistle one. Epistle too of the nature
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  Speaker 1: and state of man, with respect to himself as an individual,
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  Speaker 1: Know then thyself, presume not God to scan the proper
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  Speaker 1: study of mankind is man placed on this isthmus of
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  Speaker 1: a middle state, a being darkly wise and rudely great,
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  Speaker 1: with too much knowledge for the skeptic side, with too
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  Speaker 1: much weakness for the stoic's pride. He hangs between in
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  Speaker 1: doubt to act or rest, in doubt, to deem himself
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  Speaker 1: a god or beast, in doubt his mind or body,
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  Speaker 1: to prefer born but to die, and reasoning but to
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  Speaker 1: err alike in ignorance, his reason such whether he thinks
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  Speaker 1: too little or too much. Chaos of thought and passion,
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  Speaker 1: all confused still by himself, abused or disabused, created half
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  Speaker 1: to rise and half to fall. Great Lord of all things,
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  Speaker 1: yet to pray to all, sole judge of truth in
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  Speaker 1: endless error, hurled the glory, jest and riddle of the world.
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  Speaker 1: Go wondrous creature mount where science guides. Go, measure earth,
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  Speaker 1: weigh e'er and state the tides. Instruct the planets in
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  Speaker 1: what orbs to run, correct old time, and regulate the sun.
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  Speaker 1: Go soar with Plato to the emperial sphere, to the
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  Speaker 1: first good for us, perfect and first fair. Or tread
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  Speaker 1: the mazy round his followers trod and quitting sense, call
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  Speaker 1: imitating God, as Eastern priests in giddy circles run and
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  Speaker 1: turn their heads to imitate the Sun. Go teach eternal
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  Speaker 1: wisdom how to rule, Then drop into thyself and be
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  Speaker 1: a fool superior beings. When of late they saw a
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  Speaker 1: mortal man unfold all Nature's law, admired such wisdom in
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  Speaker 1: an earthly shape, and showed a newton, as we show
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  Speaker 1: an ape. Could he whose rules the rapid comet bind,
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  Speaker 1: describe or fix one movement of his mind, who saw
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  Speaker 1: its fires here rise and there descend, Explain his his
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  Speaker 1: own beginning or his end alas what wonder man's superior
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  Speaker 1: part uncheck'd may rise and climb from art to art.
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  Speaker 1: But when his own great work is but begun, what
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  Speaker 1: reason weaves by passion is undone trace science, Then with
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  Speaker 1: modesty thy guide. First strip off all her equipage of pride.
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  Speaker 1: Deduct what is but vanity or dress, or learning's luxury
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  Speaker 1: or idleness, or tricks to show the stretch of human brain,
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  Speaker 1: mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain. Expunge the whole, or
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  Speaker 1: lop the excrescent parts of all our vices have created arts.
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  Speaker 1: Then see how little the remaining sum which serv'd the
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: past and must the times to come. Two principles in
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  Speaker 1: human nature reign self love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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  Speaker 1: Nor this a good, nor that a bad. We call
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  Speaker 1: each works its end to move or govern all, and
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  Speaker 1: to their proper operations, still ascribe all good to their
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  Speaker 1: improper ill self. Love, the spring of motion, acts the soul,
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  Speaker 1: reasons comparing balance rules the whole man. But for that
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  Speaker 1: no action could attend. And but for this, we're active
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  Speaker 1: to no end, fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot,
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  Speaker 1: to draw nutrition, propagate and rot or meteor like flame,
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  Speaker 1: lawless through the void, destroying others by himself destroyed. Most strength,
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  Speaker 1: the moving principle requires active its task. It prompts, impels, inspires, sedate,
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  Speaker 1: and quiet the comparing lies formed, but to check, deliberate,
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  Speaker 1: and advise. Self love still stronger as its objects nigh.
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  Speaker 1: Reasons at distance and in prospect, lie that sees immediate
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  Speaker 1: good by present, sense, reason, the future, and the consequence
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  Speaker 1: thicker than arguments, temptations strong at best, more watchful this,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: but that more strong the action of the stronger to suspend, reasons,
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  Speaker 1: still use, to reason, still attend, attention, habit, and experience gains.
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  Speaker 1: Each strengthens reason, and self love restrains. Let subtle schoolmen
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  Speaker 1: teach these friends to fight more studious, to divide than
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  Speaker 1: to unite, and grace and virtue. Sense and reason split
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  Speaker 1: with all the rash dexterity of wit wits, Just like
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  Speaker 1: fools that war about a name have full as oft
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  Speaker 1: no meaning or the same self love and reason to
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  Speaker 1: one end, aspire pain, their aversion, pleasure, their desire, but
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: greedy that its object would devour this taste the honey,
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  Speaker 1: and not wound the flower. Pleasure or long or rightly
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  Speaker 1: understood our greatest evil or our greatest good, modes of
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: self love. The passions we may call tis real good
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  Speaker 1: or seeming, moves them all. But since not every good
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  Speaker 1: we can divide, and reason bids us for our own,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Provide passions, though selfish, if their means be fair, list
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  Speaker 1: under reason, and deserve her care. Those that imparted caught
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: a nobler aim, exalt their kind, and take some virtue's name.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: In lazy apathy, let stoics boast their virtue. Fix'd tis
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: fix'd as in a frost contract it all retiring to
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: the breast. But strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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  Speaker 1: The rising tempest puts in act the soul parts. It
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: may ravage, but preserves the whole. On life's vast ocean,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: diversely we sail reason the card, but passion is the gale.
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  Speaker 1: Nor God alone In the still calm, we find he
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  Speaker 1: mounts the storm and walks upon the wind. Passions like elements,
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  Speaker 1: though born to fight, yet mix'd and soften'd in his work,
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  Speaker 1: unite these tis enough to temper and employ. But what
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: composes man can bound destroy, suffice that reason, keep to
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Nature's road, subject compound them, follow her and God, love,
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  Speaker 1: hope and joy, fair pleasures, smiling, train, hate, fear, and grief,
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  Speaker 1: the family of pain. These mixed with art and to due, bounce, confined,
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  Speaker 1: make and maintain the balance of the mind. The lights
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  Speaker 1: and shades, whose well accorded strife gives all the strength
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  Speaker 1: and color of our life. Pleasures are ever in our
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  Speaker 1: hands or eyes, and when in act they cease in prospect,
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  Speaker 1: rise present to grasp, and future still to find the
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: whole employ of body and of mind. All spread their charms,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: but charm not all alike. On different senses, different objects strike,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: hence different passions, more or less in flame, as strong
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: or weak the organs of the frame, and hence one
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: master passion in the breast, like aer and serpent, swallows
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  Speaker 1: up the rest. As man, perhaps the moment of his breath,
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  Speaker 1: receives the lurking principle of death. The young disease that
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: must subdue at length grows with his growth and strengthens
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: with his strength. So cast and mingled with his very frame,
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: the mind's disease, its ruling passion came each vital humor,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: which should feed the whole. Soon flows to this in
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: body and in soul. Whatever warms the heart or fills
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: the head, as the mind opens and its functions spread,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: imagination plies her dangerous art and pours it all upon
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  Speaker 1: the peccant part. Nature, its mother, habit is, its nurse. Wit.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Spirit faculties but make it worse. Reason itself, but gives
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  Speaker 1: it edge and power. As Heaven's blessed beam turns vinegar
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  Speaker 1: more sour. We wretched subjects, though to lawful sway in
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: this weak queen, some favorite still obey Ah. If she
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: lend not arms as well as rules, What can she
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: more than tell us we are fools. Teach us to
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  Speaker 1: mourn our nature, not to mend a sharp accuser, but
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: a helpless friend, or from a judge turn pleader, to
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: persuade the choice we make, or justify it. Made proud
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: of an easy conquest all along, she but removes weak
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: passions for the strong. So when small humors gather to
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: a gout, the doctor fancies he has driven them out. Yes,
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Nature's road must ever be preferred. Reason is here no guide,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: but still a guard tis hers to rectify, not overthrow
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: and treat this passion more as friend than foe, a
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: mightier power. The strong direction sends, and several men impels
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: to several ends, like varying winds by other passions tossed.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: This drives them constant to a certain coast. Let power
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: or knowledge, gold or glory, please or oft more strong
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: than all. The love of ease through life tis followed,
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: even at life's expense. The merchant's toil, the sage's indolence,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: the monk's humility, the hero's pride. All all alike find
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  Speaker 1: reason on their side. The eternal art inducing good from ill,
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  Speaker 1: grafts on this passion our best principle. It is thus
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: the mercury of man is fix'd. Strong grows the virtue
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: with his nature mix'd the dross cements, what elsewhere to
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: refined and in one interest. Body acts with mind as fruits,
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: ungrateful to the planter's care on savage stocks inserted, learn
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: to bear the surest virtues. Thus, from passion's shoot, wild
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: nature's vigor working at the root, what crops of wit
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: and honesty appear from spleen from obstinacy, hate or fear,
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: see anger, zeal and fortitude supply, even avarice, prudence, sloth, philosophy,
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  Speaker 1: lust through some certain strainers well refined, is gentle love
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  Speaker 1: and charms all womankind. Envy to which the ignoble mind's
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: a slave is emulation in the learned or brave, Nor
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: virtue male or female. Can we name? But what will
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: grow on pride or grow on shame? Thus nature gives
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  Speaker 1: us Let it check our pride, the virtue nearest to
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: our vice, allied reason, the bias turns to good from ill,
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: and nero reigns a Titus if he will. The fiery
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: soul abhorred in catiline, in deseous charms in courteous is divine.
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  Speaker 1: The same ambition can destroy or save, and makes a
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: patriot as it makes a knave. This light and darkness
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: in our chaos join'd what shall divide the God within
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: the mind extremes in nature, equal ends produce in man.
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  Speaker 1: They join to some mysterious use, though each by turns
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: the others bound invade, as in some well wrought picture,
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: Light and shade and oft so mix. The difference is
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: too nice. Where ends the virtue or begins the fools,
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: who from hence into the notion fall that vice or virtue,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: there is none at all. If white and black blend,
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: soften and unite at thousand ways, is there no black
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: or white? Ask your own heart, and nothing is so
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: plain tis to mistake them costs the time and pain.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: Vice is a monster of so frightful mien as to
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: be hated needs but to be seen, yet seen too
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: oft familiar with her face, we first endure, then pity,
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: then embrace. But where the extreme of vice was ne'er agreed?
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: Ask where's the north? At York? Tis on the tweed?
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: In Scotland at the Orcades, and there at Greenland Zembla,
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Or the Lord knows where No creature owns it in
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: the first degree, but thinks his neighbor farther gone than he,
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: Even those who dwell beneath its very zone, or never
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: feel the rage, or never own what happier nations shrink
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: at with affright. The hard inhabitant contents is right, virtuous
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: and vicious. Every man must be few in the extreme,
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: but all in the degree. The rogue and fool by
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: fits is fair and wise, and even the best by
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: fits what they despise tis but by parts we follow
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: good or ill. For vice or virtue self directs it. Still,
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: each individual seeks a several goal, but Heaven's great view
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: is one, and that the whole that counterworks each folly
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: and caprice that disappoints the effect of every vice, that
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: happy frailties to all ranks applied, shame to the virgin,
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: to the matron, pride, fear to the statesman, rashness to
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: the chief, to king's presumption, and to crowd's belief. That
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: virtue's ends from vanity can raise which seeks no interest,
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: no reward, but praise and build on wants and on
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: defects of mind, the joy, the peace, the glory of mankind,
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: Heaven forming each on other to depend a master or
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: a servant or a friend, bids each on other for assistance.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: Call till one man's weakness grows. The strength of all wants, frailties,
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: passions closer still a lie, the common interest or endear
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: the tie to these we owe true friendship, love. Sincere
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: each homefelt joy, that life inherits here, Yet from the
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: same we learn in its decline those joys, those loves,
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: those interests, to resign, taught half by reason, half by
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: mere decay, to welcome death and calmly pass away. Whate'er
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: the passion, knowledge, fame or pelf. Not one will change
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: his neighbor with himself. The learned is happy nature to explore.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: The fool is happy that he knows no more. The
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: rich is happy, and the plenty given the poor contents
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: him with the care of heaven. See the blind beggar dance,
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: the cripple sing, the sot a hero, lunatic a king.
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: The starving chemist in his golden views supremely blest, the
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: poet in his muse. See some strange comfort every state
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: attend and pride bestowed on all a common friend. See
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: some fit passion, every age supply hope travels through, nor
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: quits us when we die. Behold the child, by nature's
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw,
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: some livelier plaything gives his youth delight a little louder,
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: but as empty quite scarfs, garters, gold, amuse, his riper stage,
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: and beads and prayer books are the toys of age.
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: Pleased with this bauble still as that before till tired
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: he sleeps, and life's poor plays o'er meanwhile. Opinion gilds
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: with varying rays, those painted clouds that beautify our days.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: Each want of happiness by hope supplied, and each vacuity
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: of sense by pride. These build as fast as knowledge
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: can destroy. In folly's cup, still laughs the bubble joy.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: One prospect lost, another still we gain, And not a
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: vanity is given in vain even mean self love becomes
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: by force, divine the scale to measure others wants by thine,
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: see and confess one comfort still must rise. Tis this,
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: though man's a fool, yet God is wise. End of
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: Epistle two, Epistle three of the Nature and State of
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: man with respect to society. Here then we rest. The
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: universal cause acts to one end, but acts by various laws,
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: in all the madness of superfluous health, the trim of pride,
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: the impudence of wealth. Let this great truth be present
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: night and day, but most be present if we preach
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: or pray. Look round our world. Behold the chain of love,
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: combining all below and all above. See plastic nature working
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: to this end. The single atoms, each to other, tend attract,
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: attracted to the next in place, formed and impelled its
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: neighbor to embrace. See matter next with various life endued,
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: pressed to one center still the general good See dying vegetables,
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: life sustain see life dissolving vegetate again. All forms that
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: perish other forms supply by turns, we catch the vital
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: breath and die, Like bubbles on the sea of matter born,
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: they rise, they break, and to that sea return. Nothing
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: is foreign. Parts relate to whole, one, all extending, all
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: preserving soul connects, each being greatest with the least made
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: beast in aid of man, and man of beast, all serv'd,
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: all serving. Nothing stands alone. The chain holds on, and
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: where it ends unknown. Has God thou fool worked solely
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: for thy good, thy joy, thy pastime, thy attire, thy food,
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: Who for thy table feeds the wanton fawn for him
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: as kind spread the flowery lawn. Is it for thee?
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: The lark ascends and sings joy, tunes his voice, joy,
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: elevates his wings. Is it for thee? The linnet pours
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: his throat, loves of his own, and raptures swell the note.
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: The bounding steed you pompously bestride, shares with his lord.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: The pleasure and the pride is thine alone. The seed
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: that strews the plain. The birds of heaven shall vindicate
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: their grain thine the full harvest of the golden year
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: part pays, and justly the deserving steer. The hog that
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: plows not nor obeys thy call, lives on the labors
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: of this Lord of all no nature's children, All all
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: divide her care. The fur that warms a monarch warmed
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: a bear. While man exclaims, see all things for my use,
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: see man for mine, replies a pampered goose. And just
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: as short of reason he must fall. Who thinks all
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: made for one, not one for all. Grant that the
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: powerful still the weak, control be man, the wit and
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: tyrant of the whole nature. That tyrant checks, he only
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: knows and helps another creature's wants and woes. Say, will
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: the falcon, stooping from above, smit with her varying plumage,
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: spare the dove, admires the jay the insect's gilded wings,
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: or hears the hawk when Philomela sings. Man cares for
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: all to birds. He gives his woods to beasts, his pastures,
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: and to fish his floods. For some. His interest prompts
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: him to provide for more his pleasure. Yet for more
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: his pride. All feed on one vain patron, and enjoy
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: the extensive blessing of his luxury, that very life, his
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: learned hunger craves. He saves from famine from the savage, saves, nay,
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: feasts the animal. He dooms his feast, and till he
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: ends the being makes it blest, which sees no more
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: the stroke or feels the pain than favor'd man by
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: touch ethereal slain. The creature had his feast of life before,
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: thou too must perish when thy feast is owe to
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: each unthinking being. Heav'n a friend gives not the useless
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: knowledge of its end to man imparts it, but with
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: such a view as while he dreads it makes him
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: hope it too. The hour conceal'd and so remote the
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: fear death still draws nearer, never seeming near great standing
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: miracle that heav'n assign'd its only thinking thing. This turn
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: of mind, whether with reason or with instinct, blest no.
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: All enjoy that power which suits them best to bliss
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: a like by that direction, tend and find the means
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: proportioned to their end. Say where full instinct is the
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: unerring guide? What pope or counsel. Can they need beside reason?
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: However able cool at best, cares not for service, or
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: but serves when pressed, stays till we call, and then
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: not often near but honest instinct comes a volunteer, sure,
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: never to o'er shoot, but just to hit while still
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: too wide or short is human wit sure by quick
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: nature happiness to gain, which heavier reason labors that in
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: vain this too serves always reason, never long one must
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: go right, the other may go wrong. See then the
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: acting and comparing powers one in their nature, which are
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: two in ours and reason? Raise or instinct as you
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: can in this tis God directs in that tis Man
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: who taught the nations of the field and wood to
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: shun their poison and to choose their food. Prescient the
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: tides or tempests, to withstand, build on the wave or
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: arch beneath the sand. Who made the spider parallels design
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: sure as des noirvre without rule or line? Who did
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: the stalk Columbus like explore heavens not his own, and
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: worlds unknown before? Who calls the council states the certain day?
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: Who forms the phalanx, and who points the way? God
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: in the nature of each being founds its proper bliss
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: and sets its proper bounds. But as he framed a hole,
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: the whole to bless on, mutual wants built mutual happiness.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: So from the first eternal order, ran and creature linked
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: to creature, man to man. What air of life all
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: quickening ether keeps or breathes through air, or shoots beneath
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: the deeps or pours profuse on earth? One nature feeds
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: the vital flame and swells the genial seeds. Not man alone,
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: but all that roam the wood, or wing the sky,
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: or roll along the flood. Each loves itself, but not
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: itself alone. Each sex desires alike till two are one.
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: Nor ends the pleasure with the fierce embrace, they love
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: themselves a third time in their race. Thus beast and
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: bird their common charge, attend. The mothers nurse it, and
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: the sires defend the young, dismiss'd to wander earth or air.
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: There stops the instinct, and there ends the care. The
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: link dissolves. Each seeks a fresh embrace. Another love succeeds,
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: another race a longer care. Man's helpless kind demands that
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: longer care contracts more lasting bands. Reflection reason Still the
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: ties improve at once extend the interest and the love.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: With choice, we fix with sympathy, we burn each virtue
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: in each passion takes its turn, and still new needs,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: new helps, new habits rise that graft benevolence on charities.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: Still as one brood and as another rose, these natural
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: love maintained habitual those the last scarce ripened into perfect
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: Man saw helpless him from whom their life began. Memory
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: and forecast just returns engage that pointed back to youth,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: this on to age, while pleasure, gratitude, and hope combined
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: still spread the interest and preserv'd the kind nor think
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: in nature's state they blindly trod. The state of nature
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: was the reign of God, Self, love and social At
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: her birth began union, the bond of all things and
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: of man. Pride then was not nor arts that pride
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: to aid. Man walked with beast, joint tenant of the shade,
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: the same his table, and the same his bed. No
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: murder clothed him, and no murder fared In the same
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: temple the resounding wood, all vocal beings hymned their equal God.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: The shrine with gore unstained with gold, undrest unbribed, unbloody,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: stood the blameless priest. Heaven's attribute was universal care and
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  Speaker 1: man's prerogative to rule. But spare ah, how unlike the
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  Speaker 1: man of times to come of half that live, the
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  Speaker 1: butcher and the tomb, who foe to nature hears the
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  Speaker 1: general groan murders their species and betrays his own. But
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  Speaker 1: just disease to luxury succeeds, and every death its own
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  Speaker 1: avenger breeds the fury passions from that blood began and
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  Speaker 1: turned on man, a fiercer savage man. See him from nature,
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  Speaker 1: rising slow to art, to copy. Instinct, then was reason's part.
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  Speaker 1: Thus then to man the voice of nature spake. Go
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  Speaker 1: from the creatures thy instructions take. Learn from the birds
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  Speaker 1: what food the thickets yield. Learn from the beasts the
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  Speaker 1: physic of the field. Thy arts of building. From the
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  Speaker 1: bee receive. Learn of the mole to plow, the worm
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  Speaker 1: to weave, Learn of the little nautilus to sail, spread
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  Speaker 1: the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Here too,
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  Speaker 1: all forms of social union find, and hence let reason
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  Speaker 1: late instruct mankind. Here subterranean works and cities, see there
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: towns aerial on the waving tree. Learn each small people's
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  Speaker 1: genius policies, the ants republic, and the realm of bees.
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  Speaker 1: How those in common, all their wealth bestow, and anarchy
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  Speaker 1: without confusion know And these, forever, though a monarch reign,
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  Speaker 1: their separate cells and properties maintain, mark what unvaried laws
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  Speaker 1: preserve each state, laws wise as nature and as fixed
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  Speaker 1: as fate. In vain thy reason, finer webs shall draw,
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  Speaker 1: entangle justice in her net of law, and right too rigid,
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  Speaker 1: harden into wrong. Still for the strong too weak, the
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  Speaker 1: weak too strong yet go, And thus aw'd all the
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  Speaker 1: creatures sway. Thus let the wiser make the rest obey.
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  Speaker 1: And for those arts mere in distinct could afford be
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  Speaker 1: crowned as monarchs or as gods adored. Great nature spoke,
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  Speaker 1: observant men obeyed, Cities were built, societies were made. Herose
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  Speaker 1: one little state another near grew by like means, and
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  Speaker 1: join'd through love or fear. Did hear the trees with
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  Speaker 1: ruddier burdens bend, And there the streams, in purer rills
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  Speaker 1: descend what war could ravish, commerce could bestow. And he
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  Speaker 1: returned a friend who came a foe. Converse, and love
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  Speaker 1: mankind might strongly draw when love was liberty and nature law.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: Thus states were formed, the name of king unknown till
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: common interest placed the sway in one twas virtue only,
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  Speaker 1: or in arts or arms, diffusing blessings or averting harms,
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  Speaker 1: the same which in a sire. The sons obey'd a prince,
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  Speaker 1: the father of a people made till then by nature
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  Speaker 1: crown'd each patriarch, sate, king, priest, and parent of his
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: growing state on him their second providence. They hung their law,
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  Speaker 1: his eye, their oracle, his tongue. He from the wandering
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  Speaker 1: furrow call'd the food, taught to command the fire, control
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  Speaker 1: the flood. Draw forth the monsters of the abyss profound
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: or fetch the ayerial eagle to the ground, till drooping, sick, dying,
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: they began whom they revered as God, to mourn as man. Then,
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  Speaker 1: looking up from sire to sire, explored one great first father,
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  Speaker 1: and that first adored or plain tradition, that this all
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: begun conveyed unbroken faith, from sire to son. The worker
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: from the work distinct was known, and simple reason never sought.
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  Speaker 1: But one ere wit obleak had broke that steady light man,
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  Speaker 1: like his maker, saw that all was right to virtue
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  Speaker 1: in the paths of pleasure, trod and owned a father
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  Speaker 1: when he owned a God, love all the faith and
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  Speaker 1: all the allegiance. Then, for nature knew no right, divayvine
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  Speaker 1: in men, no ill could fear in God, and understood
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  Speaker 1: a sovereign being, but a sovereign good, true faith, true policy,
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  Speaker 1: united ran. This was but love of God, and this
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: of man, who first taught souls enslaved and realms undone.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: The enormous faith of many made for one that proud
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: exception to all Nature's laws, to invert the world and
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  Speaker 1: counterwork its cause. Force first made conquest, and that conquest
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: law till superstition taught the tyrant awe, then shared the tyranny,
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  Speaker 1: then lent it aid, and gods of conquerors slaves of
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  Speaker 1: subjects made She midst the lightnings blaze, and thunders sound,
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: when rock'd the mountains, and when groan'd the ground. She
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  Speaker 1: taught the weak to bend, the proud to pray to
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  Speaker 1: power unseen and mightier far than they. She from the
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  Speaker 1: rending earth and bursting skies, saw gods descend and fiends
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: infernal rise. Here fix'd the dreadful, there the blest abodes.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: Fear made her devils and weak hope her gods, God's
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  Speaker 1: partial changeful passionate unjust whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust,
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  Speaker 1: such as the souls of cowards might conceive and form'd
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: like tyrants. Tyrants would believe z zeal. Then not charity
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  Speaker 1: became the guide, and hell was built on spite, and
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  Speaker 1: heaven on pride. Then sacred seemed the ethereal vault. No
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: more altars grew marble, then and reeked with gore. Then
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: first the flamen tasted living food. Next his grim idol
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: smeared with human blood, with Heaven's own thunders shook the
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  Speaker 1: world below and played the god an engine on his foe.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: So drives self love, through just and through unjust, to
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  Speaker 1: one man's power, ambition, lucre, lust, the same self love
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  Speaker 1: in all becomes the cause of what restrains him. Government
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  Speaker 1: and laws for what one likes, if others like as well?
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: What serves one will? When many wills rebel, How shall
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: he keep what sleeping or awake a weaker may surprise
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: a stronger take his safety? Must his liberty restrain? All
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: join to guard what each desires to gain? Forced into virtue,
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: Thus by self defense, even kings learned justice and benevolence.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: Self love forsook the path it first pursued, and found
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: the private in the public good. Twas then the studious
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: head or generous mind, follower of God, or friend of
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: human kind, poet or patriot rose, but to restore the
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: faith and moral na nature gave before, relum'd her ancient light,
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: not kindled new, if not God's image, yet his shadow drew,
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: taught power's due use to people and to kings, taught
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  Speaker 1: nor to slack nor strain its tender strings. The less
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  Speaker 1: or greater set so justly true that touching one must
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: strike the other two till jarring interests of themselves create
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  Speaker 1: the according music of a well mix'd state. Such is
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  Speaker 1: the world's great harmony that springs from order, union, full
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: consent of things, Where small and great, where weak and mighty,
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: made to serve, not suffer, strengthen not invade more powerful,
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  Speaker 1: each as needful to the rest, and in proportion as
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  Speaker 1: it blesses blest. Draw to one point and to one's center.
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  Speaker 1: Bring beast man or angel, servant, lord or king. For
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  Speaker 1: forms of government that fools contest, whate'er is best administered
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  Speaker 1: is best for modes of faith. Let graceless zealots fight
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: his can't be wrong whose life is in the right
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: in faith and hope. The world will disagree. But all
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: mankind's concern is charity. All must be false that thwart
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: this one great end, and all of God that bless
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: mankind or mend man like the generous vibe in supported lives.
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  Speaker 1: The strength he gains is from the embrace he gives
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: on their own axis. As the planets run, yet make
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  Speaker 1: at once their circle round the sun. So two consistent
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: motions act the soul, and one regards itself, and one
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  Speaker 1: the whole. Thus God and Nature linked the general frame
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  Speaker 1: and bade self, love and sociaal be the same. End
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  Speaker 1: of Epistle three Epistle four of the Nature and State
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  Speaker 1: of Man with respect to happiness, O happiness our being's
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  Speaker 1: end and aim good, pleasure, ease, content, whate'er thine name
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  Speaker 1: that something still which prompts the eternal sigh for which
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  Speaker 1: we bear to live or dare to die, which still
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  Speaker 1: so near us, yet beyond us, lies, or looked seen
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  Speaker 1: double by the fool and wise plant of celestial seed.
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  Speaker 1: If dropp'd below, say in what mortal soil, thou dain'st
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  Speaker 1: to grow fair opening to some corts, propitious shine, or
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  Speaker 1: deep with diamonds in the flaming mine, twin'd with the
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  Speaker 1: wreaths Parnassian laurels, yield or reap'd in iron harvests of
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  Speaker 1: the field where grows, where it grows. It not if
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: vain our toil, we ought to blame the culture, not
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  Speaker 1: the soil fixed to no spot is happiness, sincere tis
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  Speaker 1: nowhere to be found, or everywhere tis never to be bought,
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  Speaker 1: but always free and fled from monarchs sin John dwells
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  Speaker 1: with thee ask of the learned, the way the learned
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  Speaker 1: are blind. This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind.
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  Speaker 1: Some place the bliss in action, some in ease. Those
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: call it pleasure and contentment. These, some sunk to beasts,
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: find pleasure, end in pain. Some swell'd to God's confess
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: even virtue vain or indolent. To each extreme, they fall
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  Speaker 1: to trust in everything or doubt of all who thus
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  Speaker 1: define it, say they more more or less than this,
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  Speaker 1: that happiness is happiness. Take Nature's path, and mad opinions leave.
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  Speaker 1: All states can reach it, and all heads conceive obvious
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  Speaker 1: her goods in no extreme. They dwell their needs, but
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  Speaker 1: thinking right and meaning well, and mourn our various portions
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  Speaker 1: as we please. Equal is common sense and common ease. Remember, man,
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  Speaker 1: the universal cause acts not by partial but by general laws,
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  Speaker 1: and makes what happiness we justly call subsist, not in
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  Speaker 1: the good of one but all. There's not a blessing
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  Speaker 1: individuals find, but some way leans and hearkens to the kind.
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  Speaker 1: No bandit fierce, no tyrant mad with pride, no caverned hermit,
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  Speaker 1: rests self satisfied. Who most to shun or hate mankind?
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  Speaker 1: Pretend seek an admirer, or would fix a friend? Abstract
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: what others feel, what others think, All pleasures sicken, and
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: all glories sink. Each has his share, and who would
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: more obtain shall find the pleasure pays not half the pain.
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  Speaker 1: Order is Heaven's first law. And this confessed. Some are
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: and must be greater than the rest, more rich, more wise.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: But who infers from hence that such are happier shocks
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: all common sense. Heaven to mankind impartial we confess if
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: all are equal in their happiness, but mutual wants this
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: happiness increase all Nature's difference keeps all Nature's peace. Condition
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: circumstance is not the thing. Bliss is the same in
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  Speaker 1: subject or in king, in who obtain defense or who defend,
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: in him who is, or him who finds a friend.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: Heaven breathes through every member of the whole, one common blessing,
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: as one common soul. But Fortune's gifts, if each alike
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: possess'd and each were equal, must not all contest. If
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: then to all men happiness was meant God in externals
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: could not place content. Fortune her gifts may variously dispose,
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: and these be happy, call'd unhappy those but Heav'n's just
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: balance equal will appear while those are place'd in hope,
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: and these in fear nor present good or ill, the
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  Speaker 1: joy or curse. But future views of better or of worse,
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: Oh sons of Earth, attempt ye still to rise by mountains,
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  Speaker 1: pil'd on mountains to the skies. Heav'n still with laughter,
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  Speaker 1: the vain toil surveys and burries madmen in the heaps
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: they raise. Know all the good that individuals find, or
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: God and Nature meant to mere mankind reasons, whole pleasure,
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: all the joys of sense, lie in three words, health, peace,
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: and competence. But health consists with temperance alone and peace, Oh, virtue,
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  Speaker 1: Peace is all thy own, the good or bad? The
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: gifts of fortune gain, but these less taste them as
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  Speaker 1: they worse obtain. Say, in pursuit of profit or delight?
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: Who risk the most that take wrong means or right
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: of vice or virtue? Whether blessed or cursed? Which meets
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: contempt or which compassion? First? Count all the advantage prosperous
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: vice attains tis? But what virtue flies from and disdains
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: and grant the bad? What happiness they would? One they
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: must want, which is to for good? Oh? Blind to
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: truth and God's whole scheme below? Who fancy bliss to vice,
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  Speaker 1: to virtue? Woe? Who seas and follows that great scheme?
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: The best best knows the blessing and will most be blest?
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: But fools, the good alone unhappy, call for ills or
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: accidents that chance to all See Falkland dies. The virtuous
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: and the just see God like Turenne prostrate on the
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: dust see Sidney bleeds amid the martial strife? Was this
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: their virtue? Or contempt of life? Say? Was it virtue? More? Though?
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: Heaven ne'er gave lamented digby sunk thee to the grave.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: Tell me if virtue made the sun expire, why full
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: of days and honor lives the sire? Why drew maur sails,
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: good bishop purer breath when nature sicken'd and each gale
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: was death? Or why so long in life? If long
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: can be lent? Heav'n apparent to the poor and me?
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: What makes all physical or moral ill? There deviates nature,
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: and here wanders will God sends not ill? If rightly
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: understood or partial ill is universal good? Or change admits
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: or nature lets it fall short and but rare till
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: man improv'd it all, We, just as wisely might of heav'n,
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: complain that righteous able was destroy'd by Cain, as that
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: the virtuous son is ill at ease when his lwde
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: father gave the dire disease. Think we like some weak
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: prince the eternal cause prone for his favorites to reverse
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  Speaker 1: his laws, shall burning etna If a sage requires forget
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  Speaker 1: to thunder and recall her fires on air, or see
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: new motions, be impress'd o blameless Bethel to relieve thy breast.
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: When the loose mountain trembles from on high? Shall gravitation
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: cease if you go by, or some old temple nodding
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: to its fall? For Chatra's head, reserve the hanging wall.
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: But still, this world, so fitted for the knave, contents
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: us not a better. Shall we have a kingdom of
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: the just? Then let it be, But first consider how
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  Speaker 1: those just agree the good must merit God's peculiar care.
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  Speaker 1: But who but God can tell us who they are?
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: One thinks on Calvin Heaven's own spirit fell. Another deems
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  Speaker 1: him instrument of hell. If Calvin feel Heaven's blessing or
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  Speaker 1: its rod, this cries there is and that there is
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  Speaker 1: no God. What shocks one part will edify the rest?
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  Speaker 1: Nor with one system can they all be blest? The
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: very best will variously incline. And what rewards your that
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: to punish mine? Whatever is is right? This world tis true,
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: was made for Caesar, but for Titus too, And which
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: more blest, who chain'd his country? Say? Or he whose
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: virtue sigde to lose a day? But sometimes virtue starves
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: while vice is fed. What then is the reward of
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: virtue bred that vice may merit? Tis the price of toil?
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  Speaker 1: The knave deserves it when he tills the soil. The
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: knave deserves it when he tempts the main. Where folly
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: fights for kings or dives for gain. The good man
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: may be weak, be indolent, nor is his claim to
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: plenty but content. But grant him riches. Your demand is awe.
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: No shall the good want health? The good want power?
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: Add health and power and every earthly thing? Why bounded power?
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: Why private? Why no king? Nay? Why external? For internal given?
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  Speaker 1: Why is not man a god and earth a heaven?
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: Who ask and reason? Thus will scarce conceive? God gives
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: enough while he has more to give immense, the power immense?
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: Where the demand say, at what part of nature will
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: they stand? What nothing earthly gives or can destroy? The
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: soul's calm, sunshine and the heart felt joy is virtue's
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: prize a better would you fix? Then give humility, a
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: coach and six justice, a conqueror's sword, or truth, a
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: gown or public spirit, its great cure a crown We
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: foolish man? Will Heaven reward us there with the same
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: trash mad mortals wish for here the boy and man
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: an individual makes yet siest thou now for apples and
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: for cakes. Go like the Indian in another life. Expect
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: thy dog, thy bottle, and thy wife, as well as dream.
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  Speaker 1: Such trifles are assign'd as toys and empires for a
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: godlike mind, rewards that either would to virtue, bring no joy,
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: or be destructive of the thing. How oft, by these
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: at sixty are undone the virtues of a saint at
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: twenty one, to whom can riches give repute or trust,
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  Speaker 1: content or pleasure. But the good and just judges and
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: senate have been bought for gold, Esteem and love were
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: never to be sold. O fool to think God hates
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: the worthy mind, the lover and the love of human kind,
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: whose life is healthful and whose conscience clear, because he
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: wants a thousand pounds a year honor and shame from
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  Speaker 1: no condition. Rise, act well your part there all the
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: honor lies fortune in men has some small difference made.
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade. The cobbler aproned,
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: and the parson gowned, the friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
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  Speaker 1: What differ more you cry than crown and cowl I'll
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 1: tell you, friend, A why is man and a fool,
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: you'll find if once the monarch acts, the monk or cobbler,
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: like the parson, will be drunk. Worth makes the man
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  Speaker 1: and want of it the feller. The rest is all
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: but leather or prunella, stuck awe with titles and hung
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  Speaker 1: round with strings, that thou mayest be by kings or
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: whares of kings. Boast the pure blood of an illustrious
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: race in quiet flow from lucres to lucrees. But by
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: your father's worth. If yours you rate, count me those
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: only who were good and great. Go if your ancient
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 1: but ignoble blood has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood,
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: go and pretend your family is young nor own. Your
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  Speaker 1: father's have been fools so long? What can ignoble sots
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  Speaker 1: or slaves or cowards? Alas not all the blood of
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  Speaker 1: all the howards. Look next on greatness, Say where greatness lies? Where?
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  Speaker 1: But among the heroes and the wise heroes are much
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  Speaker 1: the same the points agreed from Macedonia's madmen to the Swede.
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  Speaker 1: The whole strange purpose of their lives to find or
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  Speaker 1: make an enemy of all mankind. Not one looks backward
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  Speaker 1: onward still he goes, yet ne'er looks forward farther than
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  Speaker 1: his nose. No less alike the politic and wise, all
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  Speaker 1: sly slow things with circumspective eyes. Men in their loose,
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  Speaker 1: unguarded hours, they take not that themselves are wise, but
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  Speaker 1: others weak, but grant that those can conquer these can cheat.
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  Speaker 1: Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great, who wickedly
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  Speaker 1: is wise or madly brave is But the more a fool,
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  Speaker 1: the more a knave, who noble ends by noble means,
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  Speaker 1: obtains or failing smiles in exile or in chains like
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  Speaker 1: good or Relius, let him reign or bleed like Socrates,
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  Speaker 1: that man is great. Indeed, what's fame? A fancied life
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  Speaker 1: in other's breath, a thing beyond us even before our death.
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  Speaker 1: Just what you hear you have, and what's unknown the same,
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  Speaker 1: my lord, if tullies or your own, all that we
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  Speaker 1: feel of it begins and ends in the small circle
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  Speaker 1: of our foes or friends to all beside as much
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  Speaker 1: an empty shade, and Eugene living as a Caesar dead
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  Speaker 1: alike or when or where they shone or shine, or
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  Speaker 1: on the rubicon or on the rhine, A wits a
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  Speaker 1: feather and a chief, a rod, an honest man's the
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  Speaker 1: noblest work of God. Fame, but from death a villain's
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  Speaker 1: name can save, as justice tears his body from the grave.
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  Speaker 1: When what the oblivion better? Where resign'd is hung on
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  Speaker 1: high to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign, but
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  Speaker 1: of true dessert plays round the head, but comes not
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  Speaker 1: to the heart one self approving hour, whole year's out
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  Speaker 1: ways of stupid starers, and of loud huszars, and more
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  Speaker 1: true joy. Marcellus exiled, feels than Caesar with a senate
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  Speaker 1: at his heels, in part superior. What advantage lies? Tell
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  Speaker 1: for you can What is it to be wise? Tis
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  Speaker 1: but to know how little can be known? To see
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  Speaker 1: all other's faults, and feel our own condemned in business
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  Speaker 1: or in arts, to drudge without a second or without
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  Speaker 1: a judge. Truths, would you teach or save a sinking land?
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  Speaker 1: All fear none aid you, and few understand painful pre
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  Speaker 1: eminence yourself to view above life's weakness and its comforts.
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  Speaker 1: To bring then these blessings to a strict account, make
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  Speaker 1: fair deductions, See to what they mount, how much of
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  Speaker 1: other each is sure to cost, how each for other
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  Speaker 1: oft is wholly lost, How inconsistent greater goods with these?
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  Speaker 1: How sometimes life is risked and always ease? Think and
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  Speaker 1: if still the things thy envy call say, wouldst thou
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  Speaker 1: be the man to whom they fall to sigh for ribbons?
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  Speaker 1: If thou art so silly, mark how they grace Lord
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  Speaker 1: Umbra or Sir Billy, is yellow dirt the passion of
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  Speaker 1: thy life. Look but on Gripus or on Gripus wife,
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  Speaker 1: If parts leworthy, Think how Bacon shined the wisest, brightest,
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  Speaker 1: meanest of mankind, or ravished with the whistling of a name.
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  Speaker 1: See Cromwell, damned to everlasting fame. If all united thy
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  Speaker 1: ambition call from ancient story, learn'd to scorn them all
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  Speaker 1: There in the rich, the honored, famed, and great, See
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  Speaker 1: the false scale of happiness complete in hearts of kings
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  Speaker 1: or arms of queens who lay, How happy those to
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  Speaker 1: ruin these betray? Mark by what wretched steps their glory
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  Speaker 1: grows from dirt and seaweed, as proud venice rose in each.
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  Speaker 1: How guilt and greatness equal ran, and all that raised
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  Speaker 1: the hero sunk the man. Now Europe's laurels on their
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  Speaker 1: brows behold but stain'd with blood or ill exchanged for gold.
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  Speaker 1: Then see them broke with toils, or sunk with ease,
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  Speaker 1: or infamous for plunder'd provinces o wealth ill fated, which
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  Speaker 1: no act of fame e'er taught to shine or sanctified
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  Speaker 1: from shame? What greater bliss attends their clothes of life?
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  Speaker 1: Some greedy minion or imperious wife. The trophied arches, storied
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  Speaker 1: halls invade and haunt their slumbers in the pompous shade
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  Speaker 1: alas not dazzled with their noontide ray. Compute the morn
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  Speaker 1: and evening to the day, the whole amount of that
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  Speaker 1: enormous fame, a tale that blends their glory with their shame.
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  Speaker 1: Know then this truth enough for man to know. Virtue
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  Speaker 1: alone is happiness below the only point where human bliss
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  Speaker 1: stand still and tastes the good without the fall to ill,
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  Speaker 1: where only merit, constant pay receives. Is blest in what
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  Speaker 1: it takes and what it gives, the joy unequaled. If
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  Speaker 1: it's end it gain, and if it lose, attended with
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  Speaker 1: no pain without satiety. Though a'er so blest and but
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  Speaker 1: more relished as the more distress't the broadest mirth, unfeeling,
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  Speaker 1: folly wears less pleasing far than virtues. Very tears good
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  Speaker 1: from each object, from each place acquired, for ever exercised,
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  Speaker 1: yet never tired, never related. While one man's oppressed, never dejected,
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  Speaker 1: while another's blessed. And where no wants, no wishes can remain,
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  Speaker 1: since but to wish more virtue is to gain see
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  Speaker 1: the soul bliss Heaven could on all bestow, which who
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  Speaker 1: but feels can taste, but thinks can know. Yet poor
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  Speaker 1: with fortune and with learning blind, the bad must miss.
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  Speaker 1: The good. Untaught will find slave to no sect. Who
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  Speaker 1: takes no private road, but looks through nature up to
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  Speaker 1: Nature's God pursues that chain which links the immense design,
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  Speaker 1: joins heaven and earth, and mortal and divine, sees that
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  Speaker 1: no being any bliss can know, but touches some above
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  Speaker 1: and some below. Learns from this union of the rising
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  Speaker 1: hole the first last purpose of the human soul, and
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  Speaker 1: knows where faith, law, morals all began, all end in
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  Speaker 1: love of God and love of man. For him alone,
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  Speaker 1: Hope leads from goal to goal, and opens still and
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  Speaker 1: opens on his soul till lengthened on to faith and unconfined,
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  Speaker 1: it pours the bliss that fills up all the mind.
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  Speaker 1: He sees why nature plants in man alone, hope of
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  Speaker 1: known bliss and faith in bliss unknown nature, whose dictates
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  Speaker 1: to no other kind are given in vain. But what
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  Speaker 1: they seek they find wise is her present. She connects
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  Speaker 1: in this his greatest virtue with his greatest bliss, at
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  Speaker 1: once his own bright prospect to be blest and strongest
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  Speaker 1: motive to assist the rest. Self. Love thus push'd to social,
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  Speaker 1: to divine, gives THEE to make thy neighbors blessing thine.
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  Speaker 1: Is this too little for the boundless heart? Extend it?
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  Speaker 1: Let thy enemies have part, grasp the whole worlds of reason, life,
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  Speaker 1: and sense in one close system of benevolence, happier as
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  Speaker 1: kinder in whate'er degree and high of bliss, but height
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  Speaker 1: of charity. God loves from whole to parts, but human
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  Speaker 1: soul must rise from individual to the whole. Self love
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  Speaker 1: but serves the virtuous mind to wake. As the small
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  Speaker 1: pebble stirs the peaceful lake, the center moved a circle
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  Speaker 1: straight succeeds another still, and still another spreads friend parent
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  Speaker 1: neighbour first it will embrace his country next and next
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  Speaker 1: all human race wide and more wide. The ollflowings of
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  Speaker 1: the mind take every creature in of every kind. Earth
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  Speaker 1: smiles around with boundless bounty, blest, and Heaven beholds its
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  Speaker 1: image in his breast. Come, then, my friend, my genius,
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  Speaker 1: Come along, O, master of the poet and the song.
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  Speaker 1: And while the muse now stoops or now ascends to
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  Speaker 1: man's low passions or their glorious ends, teach me, like
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  Speaker 1: thee in various nature, wise to fall with dignity, with temper,
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  Speaker 1: rise form'd by thy converse, happily to steer from grave
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  Speaker 1: to gay, from lively to severe, correct, with spirit, eloquent,
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  Speaker 1: with ease, intent to reason, or polite to please. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: while along the stream of time thy name expanded flies
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  Speaker 1: and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark
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  Speaker 1: attendants sail, pursue the triumph and partake the gale, When statesmen,
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  Speaker 1: heroes kings in dust repose, whose sons shall blush their
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  Speaker 1: fathers with thy foes, shall then this verse to future
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  Speaker 1: age pretend thou wert my guide, philosopher and friend, that
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  Speaker 1: urg'd by thee I turn'd the tuneful art from sounds
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  Speaker 1: to things, from fancy to the heart. From WIT's false
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  Speaker 1: mirror held up nature's light, show'd erring pride. Whatever is
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  Speaker 1: is right, that reason, passion answer one great aim, That
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  Speaker 1: true self, love, and social are the same. That virtue
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  Speaker 1: only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is
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  Speaker 1: ourselves to know. End of Epistle four.