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"O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?"
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"Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray."
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"Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose."
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"No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed."
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"O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place."
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"The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl."
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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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"Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay."
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"Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair."
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"Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed."
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"Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend."
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"Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."
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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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"How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home."
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"It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme."
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"Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more."
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"Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books."
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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 learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more."
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