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Murder may pass unpunish'd for a time, But tardy justice will o'ertake the crime.

Above any Greek or Roman name.

Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.

Ay, these look like the workmanship of heaven; This is the porcelain clay of human kind, And therefore cast into these noble moulds.

The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees. Three centuries he grows, and three he stays Supreme in state; and in three more decays.

Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong.

Hard features every bungler can command: To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.

Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

Such subtle covenants shall be made, Till peace itself is war in masquerade.

At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.

Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain.

Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made a still a blundering kind of melody; Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin, Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in; Free from all meaning whether good or bad, And in one word, heroically mad.

The welcome news is in the letter found; The carrier's not commission'd to expound; It speaks itself, and what it does contain, In all things needful to be known is plain.

And plenty makes us poor.

Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

For that can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?

The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd: Nor to rebuke the rich offender fear'd. His preaching much, but more his practice wrought; For this by rules severe his life he squar'd: That all might see the doctrines which they heard.

Lord of human kind.

Whatever is, is in its causes just.