"Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative."
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"For sov'reign pow'r reign not alone, Grace is the partner of the throne; Thy grace and justice mighty Lord, Shall well divide our last reward."
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"Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind."
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"A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun."
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"No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make His blessings flow Far as the curse is found."
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"At books, or work, or healthy play, Let all my years be passed; That I may give for every day A good account at last."
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"I have been there, and still would go; 'T is like a little heaven below."
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"The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding."
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"When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes."
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"In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies."
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"thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding, Who taught me betimes to love working and reading."
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"Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings"
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"Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies."
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"Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the Deity."
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"I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie."
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"In books, or work, or healthful play."
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"The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours."
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"The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man."
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"When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness."
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"Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination."
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