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61.-2. What thou dost not know THOU CANST not TELL.
3. I SPEAK not to disprove what Brutus spoke.
4. SEEK not to know what is improper for thee.
5. But here I STAND and SPEAK what I do know.
63.-2. Wherefore is there a PRICE in the hand of a fool to
get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it.

3. Yet DO I FEEL my soul recoil within me,
As I contemplate the dim gulf of death.
4. If we have whispered truth,

WHISPER no longer.

5. SPEAK as the tempest does,

Sterner and stronger.

6. The hoary HEAD IS a CROWN of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.

7. Their ADVANCEMENT in life and in education was SUCH that each ought to have been a gentleman.

64.-8. The sweet REMEMBRANCE of the just,

SHALL FLOURISH when he sleeps in dust.

9. But, when he caught the measure wild, The old MAN RAISED his HEAD and SMILED. 10. There ARE sumptuous MANSIONS with marble walls Where fountains play in the perfumed halls. 11. The EARTH HATH FELT the BREATH of spring, Though yet on her deliverer's wing

The lingering frosts of winter cling.

10. Adorned with marble walls.

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64.-1. If you would know the deeds of him who chews,
ENTER the HOUSE of God, and SEE the PEWS.

2. The MAN that dares traduce because he can
With safety to himself, is not a MAN.

4. The TIME MUST COME When all will have been said
that can be said to exalt the character of any in-
dividual of our race.

5. MYSTERIOUS ARE his WAYS, whose power
Brings forth that unexpected hour,
When minds that never met before,

Shall meet, unite, and part no more.

6. MY HEART IS AWED Within me when I think
Of the great miracle that still goes on,

In silence, round me.

65-7. When we consider carefully what appeals to our minds, and exercise upon it our own reason—taking into respectful consideration what others say upon it—and then come to a conclusion of our own, we act as intelligent beings.

8. Before we passionately desire what another enjoys, WE SHOULD EXAMINE into the happiness of its

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9. With what loud applause DIDST THOU BEAT HEAVEN with blessing Bolingbroke, before he was what thou wouldst have him be!

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5. Hour-what hour? When minds shall meet, unite, and part no more.

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65.-1. The troubled OCEAN FEELS his STEPS, as he strides

from wave to wave.

2. Beneath the spear of Cathmar ROSE that VOICE

which awakes the bards.

3. As they sat down, ONE SAID to his friend on his right, "We shall soon see who is who."

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With all the nameless shapes that haunt the deep. 5. Go to the mat where squalid Want reclines, 6. Go to the shade obscure where Merit pines, 7. ABIDE with him whom Penury's charms control, And bind the rising yearnings of whose soul. 8. SURVEY his sleepless couch, and standing there, TELL the poor pallid wretch that life is fair. 9. IT MUST BE SWEET in childhood to give back The spirit to its Maker, ere the heart Has grown familiar with the ways of sin.

10.

Wheresoe'er our best affections dwell,

And strike a healthful root, IS HAPPINESS.

11. A MAN of refinement never HAS RECOURSE to proverbs and vulgar aphorisms.

1. As he strides-whence?

As he strides-whither?

4. To sleep with shapes.

7. Penury's charms control him, and bind yearnings.

8. Tell, announce to the wretch.

9. It must be sweet. What must be sweet?

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