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Friendship is no plant of hasty growth Tho' planted in esteem's deep fixed soil, The gradual culture of kind intercourse Must bring it to perfection.

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Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar.

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I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better

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I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments

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Words of affection, howso'er express'd,The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.

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Still on it creeps,Each little moment at another's heels,Till hours, days, years, and ages are made upOf such small parts as these, and men look backWorn and bewilder'd, wondering how it is.

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Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own it is the ennobled offspring of self-love though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.

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He was not all a father's heart could wishBut oh, he was my son my only son.

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O lovely Sisters is it trueThat they are all inspired by you,And write by inward magic charm'd,And high enthusiasm warm'd

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The mind cloth shape itself to its own wantsAnd can bear all things.

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Sweet sleep be with us, one and allAnd if upon its stillness fallThe visions of a busy brain,We'll have our pleasure o'er again,To warm the heart, to charm the sight,Gay dreams to all good night, good night.

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This will be triumph this will be happiness yea, that very thing, happiness, which I have been pursuing all my life, and have never yet overtaken.

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Busy work brings after easeEase brings sport and sport brings restFor young and old, of all degrees,The mingled lot is best.

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O who shall lightly say that fame is nothing but an empty name

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The brave man is not he who feels no fear,For that were stupid and irrationalBut he, whose noble soul its fear subdues,And barely dares the danger nature shrinks from.

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What custom hath endearedWe part with sadly, tho we prize it not.

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How do men act, when they together stand,on the last perch of this swiftly-sinking wreckDo they not bravely give their parting cheer,And make their last voice loud and boIdly soundAmidst the hollow roarings of the storm

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Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

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He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for other's good, is a poor, frozen churl.

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It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man. . .

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The bliss e'en of a moment still is bliss.

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A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

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