"Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish."
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"Order, thou eye of action."
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"Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer."
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"There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood."
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"First, then, a woman will, or won't, - depend on't; If she will do't, she will; and there's an end on't. But, if she won't, since safe and sound your trust is, Fear is affront: and jealousy injustice."
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"When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd, The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd."
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"Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade."
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"Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel."
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"The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium."
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"Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between."
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