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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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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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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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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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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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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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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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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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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Death Die Dust Mightiest Turn Work
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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