Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind.
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And up he got, in haste to ride, But soon came down again.William Cowper
Philologists who chase A panting syllable through time and space, Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's ark.
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How fleet is a glance of the mind Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace.
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