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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

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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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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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