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Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of relieving only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.
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A kind and gentle heart he had,
To comfort friends and foes;
The naked every day he clad
When he put on his clothes.
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The sigh that rends thy constant heart
Shall break thy Edwin's too.
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Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but very difficult to be a good man. I esteem, therefore, the traveller who instructs the heart, but despise him who only indulges the imagination. A man who leaves home to mend himself and others, is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond.
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Where'er I roam, whatever realms I see,
My heart untraveled fondly turns to thee;
Still to my brother turns with ceaseless pain,
And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
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How small, of all that human hearts endure,
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!
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To me more dear, congenial to my heart,
One native charm, than all the gloss of art.
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And, ev'n while fashion's brightest arts decoy,
The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy.
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Thus let me hold thee to my heart,
And every care resign:
And we shall never, never part,
My life-my all that's mine!
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A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.
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Born:
November 10, 1728
Died:
April 4, 1774
(aged 45)
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