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Give us enough but with a sparing hand.

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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.

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His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.

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Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

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Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.

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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

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The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!

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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

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Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.

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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.

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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!

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A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia.

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The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.

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Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods.

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A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.

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The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.

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The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.

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