"Can't I another's face commend, And to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead lowers, As if her merit lessen'd yours?"

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"Labour for his pains."

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"I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice."

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"But from the hoop's bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound."

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"To waft a feather or to drown a fly."

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"That life is long which answers life's great end."

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"Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep!"

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"A God all mercy is a God unjust."

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"Be wise to-day; 't is madness to defer."

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"We see time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing his assault; How few themselves in that just mirror see!"

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"Man wants but little, nor that little long."

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"'T is impious in a good man to be sad."

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"All men think all men mortal but themselves."

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"A death-bed 's a detector of the heart."

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"How blessings brighten as they take their flight!"

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"And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one."

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"A Christian is the highest style of man."

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"Beautiful as sweet, And young as beautiful, and soft as young, And gay as soft, and innocent as gay!"

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"Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile."

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"By night an atheist half believes a God."

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"Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!"

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"Man makes a death which Nature never made."

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"'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven."

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"Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun."

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"Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel."

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"Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more."

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"Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour."

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"The man of wisdom is the man of years."

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"Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but himself That hideous sight,--a naked human heart."

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"Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites, Hell threatens."

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"The spirit walks of every day deceased."

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"Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines."

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"The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven."

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"At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan."

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"He mourns the dead who lives as they desire."

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"The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave, The deep damp vault, the darkness and the worm."

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"Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow."

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"Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall."

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"Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world."

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"Wishing, of all employments, is the worst."

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"Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay; And if in death still lovely, lovelier there; Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love."

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"Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn."

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"Procrastination is the thief of time."

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"Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die."

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"The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss."

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""I 've lost a day!"--the prince who nobly cried, Had been an emperor without his crown."

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"Creation sleeps! 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause,-- An awful pause! prophetic of her end."

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"Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhal'd and went to heaven."

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"While man is growing, life is in decrease; And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb. Our birth is nothing but our death begun."

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"And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell."

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