"It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!"
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"There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth."
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"Creation sleeps! 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause,- An awful pause! prophetic of her end."
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"He mourns the dead who lives as they desire."
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"And friend received with thumps upon the back."
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"On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows."
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"They only babble who practise not reflection"
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"Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise"
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"An undevout astronomer is mad."
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"Man wants little, nor that little long."
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"We cry for mercy to the next amusement, The next amusement mortgages our fields"
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"Body and soul, like peevish man and wife, United jar, and yet are loth to part."
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"A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein."
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"A land of levity is a land of guilt."
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"Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race."
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"Men are but men; we did not make ourselves."
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"Nature delights in progress; in advance."
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"The soul of man was made to walk the skies."
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"Sweet instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs."
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"As soon as we have found the key of life, it opens the gates of death."
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