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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Words of affection, howso'er express'd, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.Joanna Baillie
Thinks't thou there are no serpents in the world; But those that slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot that presses them; There are who in the path of social Iife; Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun, And sting th.
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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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O lovely Sisters is it true That they are all inspired by you, And write by inward magic charm'd, And high enthusiasm warm'd.
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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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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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