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With one hand he put
A penny in the urn of poverty,
And with the other took a shilling out.

— Robert Pollok The Course of Time (1827)

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He laid his hand upon "the Ocean's mane,"
And played familiar with his hoary locks.

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As living jewels dropped unstained from heaven.

Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept
Essential love.

He touched his harp, and nations heard, entranced,
As some vast river of unfailing source,
Rapid, exhaustless, deep, his numbers flowed
And opened new fountains in the human heart.

The Course of Time (1827)

'T was Slander filled her mouth with lying words,
Slander, the foulest whelp of Sin.

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If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

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The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

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