Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.
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As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
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To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.
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The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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What cities, as great as this, have ... promised themselves immortality Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders over the awful ruins of others.... Here stood their citadel, but now grown over with weeds there their senate-house, but now the haunt of every noxious reptile temples and theatres stood here, now only an undistinguished heap of ruins.
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Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.
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