A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
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They please, are pleas'd they give to get esteem, Till seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.Oliver Goldsmith
Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.
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Sweet Auburn loveliest village of the plain.
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Her love was sought, I do aver,
By twenty beaux and more;
The king himself has followed her,-
When she has walked before.
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Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.
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Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain.
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