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When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault to love; The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise, Sink in the soft captivity together. (Joseph Addison)
When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? My Mind is divided between the two opposite Opinions; or rather I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as Witchcraft; but at the same time can give no Credit to any Particular Instance of it. View quote
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Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity. View quote
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A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And at a distance die. View quote
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Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with horror all, and big with death! View quote
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Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art; And in a low expiring strain, Play all the comfort o'er again. View quote
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Much may be said on both sides. View quote
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire to our sons, ambition but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. View quote
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For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine. View quote
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves. View quote
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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth While all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole. (Joseph Addison)
We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull. View quote
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The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them or as the Italian proverb says, The man that lives by hope, will die by despair. View quote
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion. View quote
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Thy father's merit sets thee up to view, And shows thee in the fairest point of light, To make thy virtues, or thy faults, conspicuous. View quote
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So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast; And, pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm. View quote
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When hosts of foes with foes engage, And round th' anointed hero rage, The cleaving fauchion I misguide, And turn the feather'd shaft aside. View quote
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What means this heaviness that hangs upon me? This lethargy that creeps through all my senses? Nature, oppress'd and harrass'd out with care, Sinks down to rest. View quote
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Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget The pale, unripened beauties of the north. View quote
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What though no real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found; In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, Forever singing as they shine, "The Hand that made us divine." View quote
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If the following day he chance to find A new repast, or an untasted spring, Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury. (Joseph Addison)
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures? View quote
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The man resolved, and steady to his trust, Inflexible to ill, and obstinately just, May the rude rabble's insolence despise, Their senseless clamours and tumultuous cries; The tyrant's fierceness he beguiles, And the stern brow, and the harsh voice defies, And with superior greatness smiles. View quote
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. View quote
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty. View quote
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