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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.

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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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This long disease, my life.

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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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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.

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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.

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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.

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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

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There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.

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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.

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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

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Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day; So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.

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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

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Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?

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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

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