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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
So upright Quakers please both man and God.
What will a child learn sooner than a song?
The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.
Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?
You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
Things seen are mightier than things heard.
What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?
War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.
The sea drinks the air and the sun the sea.
Oh death, you can wait; keep your distance.
Someday we will dare to trade good for true
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
The truth doesn't care what we think of it.
I am torn in two but I will conquer myself.
Somebody who should have been born is gone.
Today God gives milk / and I have the pail.
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
The law often permits what honor prohibits.
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
We must discover security within ourselves.
Arriving there is what you are destined for
I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
High sprits they had: gravity they flouted.
My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.
Why do you insist upon destroying yourself?
the tigers have found me and I do not care.
Knowledge is knowing as little as possible.
The trouble with a mask is it never changes
you are yesterday's bouquet so sadly raided
Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
Leaving his country for his country's sake.
The Library is the heart of the University.
Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.
A severe war lurks under the show of peace.
Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing.
We shall not always plant while others reap
I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind
The ardour chills us which we do not share.
The devil is not as black as he is painted.