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The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.

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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.

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A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.

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The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.

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One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.

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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.

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Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.

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Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense.

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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!

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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.

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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.

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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.

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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.

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Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own

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A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them

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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.

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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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Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still; A Gownman learn'd; a Bishop what you will; Wise if a minister; but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.

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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

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