Quote #180

For by superior energies; more strict Affiance in each other; faith more firm In their unhallowed principles; the bad Have fairly earned a victory o'er the weak, The vacillating, inconsistent good.

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  1. Society became my glittering bride.
  2. There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.
  3. The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way!
  4. Lost in a gloom of uninspired research.
  5. Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.
  6. We live by Admiration, Hope and Love.
  7. Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.
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