Reason to rule but mercy to forgive The first is the law, the last prerogative.

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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

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Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.

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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

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Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.

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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

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Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

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Look around the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

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Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

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