Abstruse and mystic thoughts you must express
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Immodest words admit of no defence,
For want of decency is want of sense.
The first great work (a task performed by few)
Is that yourself may to yourself be true.
'Tis I that call, remember Milo's end,
Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
The press, the pulpit, and the stage,
Conspire to censure and expose our age.
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When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
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