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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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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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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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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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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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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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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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