Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar;Wait the great teacher Death; and God adore.
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, Few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
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Ah let thy handmaid, sister, daughter move,
And all those tender names in one, thy love!
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Dear damned distracting town.
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Thy place is here, sad sister, come away!
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