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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.


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Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

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I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.

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