Back through the paths of pleasing sense I ran,
Nor wish'd an Angel whom I lov'd a Man.
(Eloisa To Abelard)
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The most positive men are the most credulous.Alexander Pope
See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again All forms that perish other forms supply By turns we catch the vital breath and die.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast Their virtue fix'd 't is fix'd as in a frost Contracted all, retiring to the breast But strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Envy will merit, as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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