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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

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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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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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