The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
JOHN DRYDENSome of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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