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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.

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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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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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Cloud Courage Saint Head Much Shall
Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Depend Happiness Inspirational Nature Show Suppose Thing
Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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