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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.

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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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