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It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.

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I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an ad.

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The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl.

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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.

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

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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.

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I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he has the humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.

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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

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Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word!

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Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

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The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

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A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

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Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour.

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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

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God made the country, and man made the town.

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How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.

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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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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

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