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Oh let thy fear within me dwell,
Thy love my footsteps guide ;
That love shall vainer loves expel,
That fear all fears beside.
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Not what we wish, but what we want,
Oh, let thy grace supply!
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Oft has it been my lot to mark
A proud, conceited, talking spark.
James Merrick
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Simplification is the essence of abstraction from which objective values are not necessarily eliminated.
Hans Hofmann
James Merrick
Born:
1720
Died:
1769
(aged 49)
Bio:
James Merrick was an English poet and scholar; M.A. Trinity College, Oxford, 1742: fellow, 1745: ordained, but lived in college.
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