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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.

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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.

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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

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As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.

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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.

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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.

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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.

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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.

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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.

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For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best.

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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.

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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.

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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.

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