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| I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau - If birds confabulate or no |
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| I was a stricken deer, that left the herd / Long since. |
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| I was bred to the law, a profession to which I was never much inclined, and in which I engaged, rather because I was desirous to gratify a most indulgent father, than because I had any hope of success in it myself. |
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| I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he has the humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. |
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| I would not enter on my list of friends / (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, / Yet wanting sensibility) the man / Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. |
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| If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one . . . . |
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In idle wishes fools supinely stay;
Be there a will, -- and wisdom finds a way. |
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| It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme |
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| It is a terrible thought, that nothing is ever forgotten; that not an oath is ever uttered that does not continue to vibrate through all times, in the wide spreading current of sound; that not a prayer is lisped, that its record is not to be found st |
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| John Gilpin was a citizen / Of credit and renown, / A train-band captain eke was he / Of famous London town. |
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| Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true - / A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew. |
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| Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; wisdom in minds attentive to their own. |
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| Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more. |
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| Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. |
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| Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he k |
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| Let her pass, and charioted along / In guilty splendour, shake the public ways! |
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| Made poetry a mere mechanic art; / And every warbler has his tune by heart. |
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