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One leg by truth supported, one by lies,
They sidle to the goal with awkward pace,
Secure of nothing -- but to lose the race. | | Uncategorized | |
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Our wasted oil unprofitably burns,
Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns. | | Uncategorized | |
| Patriots are grown too shrewd to be sincere, And we too wise to trust them | | Uncategorized | |
| Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, / Unfriendly to society's chief joys, / Thy worst effect is banishing for hours / The sex whose presence civilizes ours. | | Uncategorized | |
| Philologists who chase / A panting syllable through time and space, / Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, / To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's ark. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray. | | Uncategorized | |
| Regions Caesar never knew / Thy posterity shall sway. | | Uncategorized | |
Religion does not censure or exclude
Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued. | | Uncategorized | |
| Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word! | | Uncategorized | |
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| Remorse, the fatal egg by Pleasure laid / In every bosom where her nest is made. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Rome shall perish - write that word / In the blood that she has spilt. | | Uncategorized | |
| Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees. | | Uncategorized | |
| Says John, It is my wedding-day, / And all the world would stare, / If wife should dine at Edmonton, / And I should dine at Ware. | | Uncategorized | |
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Skins may differ, but affection
Dwells in white and black the same. | | Uncategorized | |
