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Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolish'd the right arm Of his own country.

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Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!

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Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

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You should have a softer pillow than my heart.

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Socrates said, our only knowledge was "To know that nothing could be known;" a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present. Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only "like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth."

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There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.

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Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.

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When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years.

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Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures; And all are to be sold, if you consider Their passions, and are dext'rous; some by features Are brought up, others by a warlike leader; Some by a place--as tend their years or natures; The most by ready cash--but all have prices, From crowns to kicks, according to their vices.

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I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.

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In solitude, where we are least alone.

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For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

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I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

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Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge.

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Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave.

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Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

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What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.

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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

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