If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
Who will watch the watchers?
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One Liner Watch
Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
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Crime Crown Different Result
So Nature ordains; no evil example corrupts us so soon and so rapidly as one that has been set at home, since it comes into the mind on high authority.
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Authority Example Mind Nature Rapid
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem

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