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Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
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Ye living flowers that skirt the eternal frost.
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COLERIDGE: _Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni._


=Foe.=

Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe,
Bold I can meet,--perhaps may turn his blow!
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send,
Save, save, oh save me from the _candid friend_!
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GEORGE CANNING: _New Morality._


=Folly.=

Fools, to talking ever prone,
Are sure to make their follies known.
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GAY: _Fables,_ Pt. i., Fable 44.

Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it,
If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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POPE: _Moral Essays,_ Epis. ii., Line 15.

Where lives the man that has not tried
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