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One leg by truth supported, one by lies,
They sidle to the goal with awkward pace,
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Our wasted oil unprofitably burns,
Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns. |
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| Patriots are grown too shrewd to be sincere, And we too wise to trust them |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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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. |
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| Regions Caesar never knew / Thy posterity shall sway. |
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Religion does not censure or exclude
Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued. |
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| Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word! |
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| Remorse, the fatal egg by Pleasure laid / In every bosom where her nest is made. |
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| Rome shall perish - write that word / In the blood that she has spilt. |
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| Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees. |
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| 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. |
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Skins may differ, but affection
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