Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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Every man has, some time in his life, an ambition to be a wag.Samuel Johnson
The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Such is the constitution of man that labor may be styled its own reward nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered how much happiness is gained, and how much misery escaped, by frequent and violent agitation of the body
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Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
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Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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