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Swinish gluttony never looks to heaven amidst its gorgeous feast; but with besotted, base ingratitude, cravens and blasphemes his feeder.

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Luck is the residue of design.

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Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

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Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease.

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Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.

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Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways.

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Ah gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish and deliver ye to woe, More woe, the more your taste is now of joy.

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No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality.

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Th' imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind.

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In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, Till thou return unto the ground; for thou Out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.

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The timely dew of sleep.

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The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.

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So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.

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A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.

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Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.

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The best apology against false accusers is silence.

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I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.

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All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.

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When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

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Tears such as angels weep.

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