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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Another Detect Hunting Owe Pain Sport
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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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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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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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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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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Cloud Courage Saint Head Much Shall
Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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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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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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Bare Behind Blamer Brand Magisterial More Offense Own Satire Strip
Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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Around Cheer Close Fall Fire Shutter Sofa Stir
Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Book Seldom Spell

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