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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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The Muse but served to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease, my life;
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Tell me, my soul, can this be death?
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer
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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
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Die of a rose in aromatic pain?
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The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves.
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All seems infected that the infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
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True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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