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| Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind. |
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| Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day |
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Faults in the life breed errors in the brain,
And these, reciprocally, those again. |
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| For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right |
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| For loss of time, / Although it grieved him sore, / Yet loss of pence, full well he knew, / Would trouble him much more. |
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| Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves however contented never know |
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| From reveries so airy, from the toil / Of dropping buckets into empty wells, / And growing old in drawing nothing up. |
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| Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt |
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| God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm. |
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| Great contest follows, and much learned dust / Involves the combatants. |
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| Greece, sound thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, / But England's Milton equals both in fame. |
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| Grief is itself a med'cine. |
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| Happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose |
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He is the freeman whom the truth makes free.
And all are slaves beside. |
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| He kissed likewise the maid in the kitchen, and seemed upon the whole a most loving, kissing, kind-hearted gentleman. |
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He sees that this great roundabout
The world, with all its motley rout,
Church, army, physic, law,
Its customs and its businesses,
Is no concern at all of his,
And says -- what says he? -- Caw. |
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