The dearest idol I have known, Whatever that idol be, Help me to tear it from thy throne , And worship only thee.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.William Cowper
Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ, The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true, A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.
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Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing
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The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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