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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.

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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Bear Fatigue Indolent Insupportable Poor Rich Think Thinking Weak
Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Harmony Heaven Love Religious Universal
The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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Forbear Forgiving Happier Kindest Occasion Pair Pity Something
Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Compassion Dismiss God Heart Men
But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Ease Mean Modesty Please Press Remember Still
There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Pain Pleasure Poet Poetic Poetry
The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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Every Mistakes Reasoning Step Tread
Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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Frowned Grace Judge Judging Lord Trust
Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Authorship Genius Manner Sense Substitutes
Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Being Connection Knowledge Men Mind Often Time Wisdom
Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Cole Devil God Made Pit Pride
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Mind Occupation Quite Relaxation Wisdom
Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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Fall Giving Great Men Office Talent
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

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