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... peace , To silence envious tongues . Give thy thoughts no tongue , Sh . Hen . VIII . 111. 2 . Nor any unproportion'd thought his act . Be thou familiar , but by no means vulgar . The friends thou hast , and their adoption tried ...
... peace , To silence envious tongues . Give thy thoughts no tongue , Sh . Hen . VIII . 111. 2 . Nor any unproportion'd thought his act . Be thou familiar , but by no means vulgar . The friends thou hast , and their adoption tried ...
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... peace to the land ! may the people at length , Know that freedom is bliss , but that honour is strength ; That though man have the wings of the fetterless wind , Of the wantonest air that the north can unbind , Yet if health do not ...
... peace to the land ! may the people at length , Know that freedom is bliss , but that honour is strength ; That though man have the wings of the fetterless wind , Of the wantonest air that the north can unbind , Yet if health do not ...
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... Peace , brother , be not over - exquisite To cast the fashion of uncertain evils ; For , grant they be so , while they rest unknown , What need a man forestall his date of grief , And run to meet what he would most avoid ? To swallow ...
... Peace , brother , be not over - exquisite To cast the fashion of uncertain evils ; For , grant they be so , while they rest unknown , What need a man forestall his date of grief , And run to meet what he would most avoid ? To swallow ...
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... peace , and joy ; And not with curses on his art , who stole Denham . Butler . The gom of truth from his unguarded soul . Cowper , Tiroc . 147 . Books cannot always please , however good ; Minds are not ever craving for their food ...
... peace , and joy ; And not with curses on his art , who stole Denham . Butler . The gom of truth from his unguarded soul . Cowper , Tiroc . 147 . Books cannot always please , however good ; Minds are not ever craving for their food ...
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... peace attends ! All hail , ye sacred solitary groves ! All hail , ye books , my true , my real friends , Whose conversation pleases and improves . The past but lives in words : a thousand ages Were blank , if books had not evoked their ...
... peace attends ! All hail , ye sacred solitary groves ! All hail , ye books , my true , my real friends , Whose conversation pleases and improves . The past but lives in words : a thousand ages Were blank , if books had not evoked their ...
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