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Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

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Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

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Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

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Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.

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I shall be but a shrimp of an author.

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The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

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Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond today.

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Visions of glory, spare my aching sight.

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Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.

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And weep the more, because I weep in vain.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: December 26th, 1716

Died: June 30th, 1771

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