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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.

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Authorship Genius Manner Sense Substitutes
And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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Address Addresses Little May Perhaps Smile Tears Wipe
An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Depend Happiness Inspirational Nature Show Suppose Thing
Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Love Mercy Son Therefore
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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Air Brisk Ear Heart Martial Melt Mind Music Pease Pitch Soul Sound Sympathy
…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Evening Let Night Peaceful Welcome
A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Atheism Dear Heretic Regard Something
While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Depend Eternal Friend Hardly Single Thing Truth
Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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Alast Best Blessing Enemy Forgiveness Friend Instance Life Neglect Remember
Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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Hand Rock Spring Tree
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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Ceaseless Corrosion Divide Joy Know May Passionate Temper

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