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Every sound alarms. [A guilty conscience.]
Every sound alarms. [A guilty conscience.]
He can do most who has most power.
He can do most who has most power.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done.
The far-off interest of tears.
The far-off interest of tears.
Coming events cast their shadows before.
Coming events cast their shadows before.
At morn the blackcock trims his jetty wing,
'Tis morning prompts the linnet's blithest lay;
All Nature's read more
At morn the blackcock trims his jetty wing,
'Tis morning prompts the linnet's blithest lay;
All Nature's children feel the matin spring
Of life reviving, with reviving day.
Men freely believe that which they wish to be the truth.
Men freely believe that which they wish to be the truth.
What you keep by you, you may change and mend;
But words once spoke can never be recall'd.
What you keep by you, you may change and mend;
But words once spoke can never be recall'd.
When men grow virtuous in their old age they are merely making a
sacrifice to God of the devil's read more
When men grow virtuous in their old age they are merely making a
sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
