"Live now; be damn'd hereafter."
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"However smothered under former negligence, or scattered through the dull, dark mass of common thoughts - let thy genius rise as the sun from chaos."
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"Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour? What tho' we wade in Wealth, or soar in Fame? Earth's highest station ends in 'Here he lies;' and 'Dust to dust' concludes the noblest songs."
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"In chambers deep, Where waters sleep, What unknown treasures pave the floor."
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"Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs."
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"A Deity believed, is joy begun; A Deity adored, is joy advanced; A Deity beloved, is joy matured. Each branch of piety delight inspires."
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"I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold."
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"In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom... And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing."
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"When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees"
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"We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun."
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"Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!"
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"Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled."
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"Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide."
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"Nothing in Nature, much less conscious being, Was e'er created solely for itself."
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"Joys season'd high, and tasting strong of guilt."
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"Poor in abundance, famish'd at a feast."
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"Ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly."
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"This vast and solid earth, that blazing sun, Those skies, thro' which it rolls, must all have end. What then is man? The smallest part of nothing."
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"With fame, in just proportion, envy grows."
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"One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven."
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