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who at- | tempts to | lean upon | these, | rather than upon those truths which, | like the | Ever- | lasting | Arm, | | | cannot fail! |◄|◄|

In all modesty be it | said, ¦ we have | lived to | little purpose, if we are not | wiser than the | gene- |

rations that have | gone be- | fore us.

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grand dis- | tinction of | man

It is the |

that | he is a pro- | gressive

| being; | that his | reason, at the | present | day,

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human | being, | but that in | all | ages from | which

not the reason of a single | of the whole | human | race, | knowledge has de- | scended, in | all | lands from | which it has been borne a- | way. We are the heirs to an inheritance of | truth, | gradually ac- | cumulating | from generation to gene- | ration. |77|

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Let us | cease, | then, to | look for a | lamp to our | feet, in the feeble | tapers that | glimmer in the | sepulchres of the past. || Rather let us | hail those | ever- | burning lights above, in whose | beams is the | brightness of noon-day. |17|

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CATO'S SOLILOQUY ON IMMORTALITY.

1. Ir must be so:|| Plato, thou | reasonest | well!|77| Else, whence this | pleasing | hope,

this | fond de- | sire, |

This | longing after | immortality? |97|

Or whence this | secret | dread, and | inward | horror,
Of falling into | nought? || Why | shrinks the | soul

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2. Eternity! | thou | pleasing, | dreadful | thought! | Through | what va- | riety of | untried | being, |

Through what | new scenes and changes must we pass! | The wide, the un- | bounded | prospect | lies be- | fore me; | 71

But shadows, | clouds, and | darkness | rest upon it. |17|

3. Here will I hold. If there's a | power a- | bove us, (And that there | is, | all | nature | cries a- | loud, | 1 Through all her | works,) | He must de- | light in | virtue: |

And that which | he de- | lights in | must be | happy.

But when? | or | where? This world was | |

made for Cæsar! |

I'm weary of con- | jectures: | this must | end them.

(Laying his hand on his sword.)

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4. Thus am I doubly | armed. | My | death and | life, | My bane and antidote, are | both be- | fore me. | This in a moment | brings me to an end; |

But this in- | forms me I shall never | die. ||
The soul se- | cured in her ex- | istence | smiles
At the | drawn | dagger,

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and de- | fies its | point. |17|

The stars shall | fade a- | way, the | sun him- | self Grow | dim with | age, | and | nature | sink in | years; |

But thou shalt | flourish in im- | mortal | youth, |

Un- | hurt a- | midst the | war of | elements, |

The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.

ADDISON.

AGAINST PROCRASTINATION.

BE❘ wise to- | day; 'tis | madness to de- |

fer; 1711

Next | day the | fatal | precedent | will | plead, |

Thus

on,

life.

till | wisdom is pushed out of | 1971

Pro-crastination is the thief of time;

Year after year it | steals, | till | all are | fled, 1
And to the mercies of a | moment | leaves |

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The vast con- | cerns of an e- | ternal | scene. 19911

If not so frequent, | would not | this be | strange? |
That 'tis so frequent, this is stranger | still.

Of | man's mi- | raculous mis- | takes,

The palm,
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and their | pride |

on the | brink of | being | born. |9

All pay themselves the | compliment to | think |

They one day | shall not | drivel;

On this re- | version | takes up | ready | praise,

At | least their | own; their | future | selves | ap- |

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The thing they can't but | purpose, they post- |

pone; 1771

'Tis not in ❘ folly, ❘ not to | scorn a | fool;

And scarce in human wisdom, to do | more. 777771

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All promise is poor | dilatory | man, |

And that through every stage: when

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| young, in- | deed,||

In | full con

tent we sometimes | nobly | rest,

Un-anxious for our- | selves; and only | wish,

Asduteous | sons,

wise. 71771

our fathers were more |

At thirty man suspects himself | a | fool; 71

Knows it at forty,

and re- | forms his | plan; 77

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At fifty | chides his | infamous de- | lay,|

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Pushes his | prudent | purpose to re- | solve; |

In | all the | magna- | nimity of | thought |

and re-re- | solves; || then |

Re- | solves;

dies the same. 991791

YOUNG.

THERE is a calm

A rest

THE GRAVE.

for those who | weep,◄|

for | weary | pilgrims | found,|

They softly lie,and | sweetly | sleep,|

Low in the ground. 111111

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The storm that | wrecks the | wintry | sky ◄| No more dis- | turbs their | deep re- | pose, 1 Than | summer | evening's | latest | sigh,

That shuts the rose. 191991

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