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“He that alone would wise and mighty be,Commands that others love as well as he.Love as he lov'd! - How can we soar so high?-He can add wings when he commands to fly.Nor should we be with this command dismay'd;He that examples gives will give his aid:For he took flesh, that where his precepts fall,His practice, as a pattern, may prevail.”

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All things but one you can restore; the heart you get returns no more.

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To man, that was in th' evening made, Stars gave the first delight; Admiring, in the gloomy shade, Those little drops of light.

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What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?

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Fade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so; 'tis but what we in our autumn do.

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For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is, that they sing, and that they love. While I listen to thy Voice.

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