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All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise, and coarsely kind.

And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employ'd.

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the runs of Iona.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

In misery's darkest caverns known, His useful care was ever nigh, Where hopeless Anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.

A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.

Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity; but we have not pity unless we wish to relieve him.

I fly from pleasure, because pleasure has ceased to please: I am lonely because I am miserable.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

The future is purchased by the present.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

The first years of man must make provision for the last.