"As if the world and they were hand and glove."

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"Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free! They touch our country, and their shackles fall."

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"'T is Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours."

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"Built God a church, and laugh'd his word to scorn."

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"I burn to set the imprison'd wranglers free, And give them voice and utterance once again. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in."

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"O Solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face?"

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"Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more."

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"Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books."

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"The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge."

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"There is a pleasure in poetic pains Which only poets know."

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"Which not even critics criticise."

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"Freedom has a thousand charms to show, That slaves, howe'er contented, never know."

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"A fool must now and then be right by chance."

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"Behind a frowning providence He hides a shining face."

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"A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me,--and no other can."

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"A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age."

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"Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature."

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"And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile."

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"Praise enough To fill the ambition of a private man, That Chatham's language was his mother tongue."

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"Presume to lay their hand upon the ark Of her magnificent and awful cause."

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"How various his employments whom the world Calls idle, and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!"

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"A kick that scarce would move a horse May kill a sound divine."

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"His head, Not yet by time completely silver'd o'er, Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth, But strong for service still, and unimpair'd."

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"As dreadful as the Manichean god, Adored through fear, strong only to destroy."

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"Happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose."

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"Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. Books are not seldom talismans and spells."

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"Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower; Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads."

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"Great contest follows, and much learned dust."

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"Variety 's the very spice of life."

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"With spots quadrangular of diamond form, Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, And spades, the emblems of untimely graves."

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"For 't is a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right."

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"There is a bird who by his coat, And by the hoarseness of his note, Might be supposed a crow."

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"He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door."

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"But strive still to be a man before your mother."

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"He sees that this great roundabout The world, with all its motley rout, Church, army, physic, law, Its customs and its businesses, Is no concern at all of his, And says--what says he?--Caw."

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"Toll for the brave!-- The brave that are no more! All sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore!"

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"Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?"

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"The stormy March has come at last, With winds and clouds and changing skies; I hear the rushing of the blast That through the snowy valley flies."

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"The victory of endurance born."

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"Loveliest of lovely things are they On earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower."

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"Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste."

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"All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom."

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"The groves were God's first temples."

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"And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more."

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"Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings."

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"So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious realm where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams."

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"To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language."

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"Truth crushed to earth shall rise again,-- The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshippers."

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"The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds and naked woods and meadows brown and sear."

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"The hills, Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun."

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