"England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!"

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"What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill."

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"How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home!"

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"O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!"

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"The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves, by thumping on your back, His sense of your great merit, Is such a friend that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it."

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"He is the freeman whom the truth makes free."

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"There goes the parson, O illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk."

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"Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of Paradise that has survived the fall!"

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"He would not, with a peremptory tone, Assert the nose upon his face his own."

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"I praise the Frenchman, his remark was shrewd,-- How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper, Solitude is sweet."

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"A hat not much the worse for wear."

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"The Frenchman's darling."

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"But war 's a game which were their subjects wise Kings would not play at."

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"Whoe'er was edified, themselves were not."

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"An honest man, close-button'd to the chin, Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within."

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"Lights of the world, and stars of human race."

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"God made the country, and man made the town."

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"I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute."

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"Low ambition and the thirst of praise."

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"Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a lustre, he that runs may read."

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"I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd."

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"Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade."

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"The sounding jargon of the schools."

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"Oh that those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last."

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"It seems the part of wisdom."

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"United yet divided, twain at once: So sit two kings of Brentford on one throne."

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"A business with an income at its heels Furnishes always oil for its own wheels."

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"I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm."

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"When one that holds communion with the skies Has fill'd his urn where these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'T is e'en as if an angel shook his wings."

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"But the sound of the church-going bell These valleys and rocks never heard; Ne'er sigh'd at the sound of a knell, Or smiled when a Sabbath appear'd."

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"The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change And pleased with novelty, might be indulged."

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"And Katerfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. 'T is pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world,--to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd."

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"Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy."

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"Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd."

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"Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ, The substitute for genius, sense, and wit."

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"Our wasted oil unprofitably burns, Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns."

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"In indolent vacuity of thought."

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"Silently as a dream the fabric rose, No sound of hammer or of saw was there."

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"Now let us sing, Long live the king! And Gilpin, Long live he! And when he next doth ride abroad, May I be there to see!"

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"Those golden times And those Arcadian scenes that Maro sings, And Sidney, warbler of poetic prose."

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"God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm."

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"Beware of desperate steps! The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have pass'd away."

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"Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts."

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"His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home."

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"How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged, arrows of light."

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"Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more."

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"While fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home."

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"Made poetry a mere mechanic art."

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"That good diffused may more abundant grow."

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"All learned, and all drunk!"

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