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• The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men…
• How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
• For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is, that they sing, and that they love. While I listen to…
• Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
• Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.
• All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
• Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
• His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
• So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
• Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
• The chain that's fixed to the throne of Jove, On which the fabric of our world depends, One link dissolved, the whole…
• The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses, nor the zealous…

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