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For those whom God to ruin has designed He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.

There is a pleasure, sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know!

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.

The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive title, long and dark, Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's Ark.

He made all countries where he came his own.

Some truth there was, but dash'd and brew'd with lies, To please the fools, and puzzle all the wise.

Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.

So liv'd our sires, ere doctors learn'd to kill, And multiplied with theirs the weekly bill.

There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.

A very merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.

Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from his high estate, And welt'ring in his blood; Deserted at his utmost need, By those his former bounty fed; On the bare earth expos'd he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes.

When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her.

A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils.