Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray.
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It's a damned long, boggy, dirty, dangerous way.
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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The very pink of perfection.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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