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Appearances deceive And this one maxim is a standing rule: Men are not what they seem. - [Appearance] Be honest poverty thy boasted wealth; So shall thy friendships be sincere, tho' few So shall thy sleep be sound, thy waking cheerful. - [Poverty] Britain, the queen of isles, our fair possession Secur'd by nature, laughs at foreign force; Her ships her bulwark, and the sea her dike, Sees plenty in her lap, and braves the world. - [England] Comfort--'tis for ease and quiet; It sleeps upon the down of sweet content, In the sound bed of industry and health. - [Comfort] Consider how the desperate fight; Despair strikes wild,--but often fatal too-- And in the mad encounter wins success. - [Despair] Fear on guilt attends, and deeds of darkness; The virtuous breast ne'er knows it. - [Fear] Frank sincerity, though no invited guest, is free to all, and brings his welcome with him. - [Sincerity] Hark! the death-denouncing trumpet sounds The fatal charge, and shouts proclaim the onset; Destruction rushes dreadful to the field, And bathes itself in blood; havoc let loose Now undistinguish'd rages all around, While ruin, seated on her dreary throne, Sees the plain strewed with subjects truly hers, Breathless and cold. - [Battle] He that acts unjustly Is the worst rebel to himself; and though now Ambition's trumpet and the drum of power May drown the sound, yet conscience will one day Speak loudly to him. - [Injustice] How the time Loiters in expectation! Then the mind Drags the dead burden of a hundred years In one short moment's space. The nimble heart Beats with impatient throbs,--sick of delay, And pants to be at ease. - [Expectation] I have too deeply read mankind to be amused with friendship; it is a name invented merely to betray credulity; it is intercourse of interest, not of souls. - [Friendship] Let falsehood be a stranger to thy lips; Shame on the policy that first began To tamper with the heart to hide its thoughts! And doubly shame on that inglorious tongue, That sold its honesty and told a lie. - [Falsehood] O breath of public praise, Short liv'd and vain! oft gain'd without desert, As often lost, unmerited; composed But of extremes: Thou first beginn'st with love Enthusiastic, madness of affection; then (Bounding o'er moderation and o'er reason) Thou turn'st to hate, as causeless and as fierce. - [Popularity] O credulity, thou hast as many ears as fame has tongues, open to every sound of truth as of falsehood. - [Credulity] O cursed ambition, thou devouring bird, How dost thou from the field of honesty Pick every grain of profit or delight, And mock the reaper's toil! - [Ambition] O Eloquence! thou violated fair, how thou art wooed and won to either bed of right or wrong! - [Eloquence] Servile inclinations, and gross love, The guilty bent of vicious appetite; At first a sin, a horror ev'n in bliss, Deprave the senses and lay waste the man; Passions irregular, and next a loathing, Quickly succeed to dash the wild. - [Lust] The greatest glory of a free-born people, Is to transmit that freedom to their children. - [Freedom] The guilty mind debases the great image that it wears, and levels us with brutes. - [Guilt] Who shall tax successful villany, or call the rising traitor to account? - [Success]
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