"Within the brain's most secret cells, A certain lord chief justice dwells, Of sov'reign power, whom one and all, With common voice we reason call."
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"If honor calls, where'er she points the way The sons of honor follow, and obey."
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"Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools."
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"Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill."
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"Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man; How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about that thing himself."
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"The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood."
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"Satire, whilst envy and ill-humor sway The mind of man, must always make her way; Nor to a bosom, with discretion fraught, Is all her malice worth a single thought. The wise have not the will, nor fools the power, To stop her headstrong course; within the hour Left to herself, she dies; opposing strife Gives her fresh vigor, and prolongs her life."
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