Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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The present is an eternal now.
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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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The liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,–a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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