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Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.
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What is a law, if those who make it
Become the forwardest to break it?
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To think everything disputable is a proof of a weak mind and a captious temper.
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Is there a heart that music cannot melt?
Alas! how is that rugged heart forlorn.
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And, lo! in the dark east, expanded high,
The rainbow brightens to the setting Sun.
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What cannot art and industry perform,
When science plans the progress of their toil!
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Dreadful is their doom, whom doubt has driven
To censure fate, and pious hope forego.
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By the glare of false science betray'd,
That leads to bewilder, and dazzles to blind.
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Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb
The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?
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Borne on the swift, tho' silent wings of time,
Old age comes on apace, to ravage all the clime.
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But when shall spring visit the mouldering urn?
Oh when shall it dawn on the night of the grave?
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'Twas thus by the glare of false science betray'd, That leads, to bewilder; and dazzles, to blind...
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The love of God ought continually to predominate in the mind, and give to every act of duty grace and animation.
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They who, by speech or writing, present to the ear or eye of modesty any of the indecencies, are pests of society.
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Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free;
Patient of toil, serene amidst alarms;
Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.
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In all instances where our experience of the past has been extensive and uniform, our judgment concerning the future amounts to moral certainty.
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Let those deplore their doom,
Whose hope still grovels in this dark sojourn;
But lofty souls, who look beyond the tomb,
Can smile at Fate, and wonder how they mourn.
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In the deep windings of the grove, no more
The hag obscene, and grisly phantom dwell;
Nor in the fall of mountain-stream, or roar
Of winds, is heard the angry spirit's yell.
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And from the prayer of Want, and plaint of Woe,
O never, never turn away thine ear!
Forlorn, in this bleak wilderness below,
Ah! what were man, should Heaven refuse to hear!
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No jealousy their dawn of love o'ercast,
Nor blasted were their wedded days with strife;
Each season look'd delightful as it past,
To the fond husband, and the faithful wife.
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True dignity is his whose tranquil mind
Virtue has raised above the things below;
Who, every hope and fear to heaven resign'd
Shrinks not, though fortune aims her deadliest blow.
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When squint-eyed Slander plies the unhallow'd tongue,
From poison'd maw when Treason weaves his line,
And Muse apostate (infamy to song!)
Grovels, low muttering, at Sedition's shrine.
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Fancy a thousand wondrous forms descries
More wildly great than ever pencil drew,
Rocks, torrents, gulfs, and shapes of giant size,
And glittering cliffs on cliffs, and fiery ramparts rise.
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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
Ogden Nash
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Born:
October 25, 1735
Died:
August 18, 1803
(aged 67)
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