Date: 1752, 1791
"Not all the volumes on thy shelf, / Are worth that single volume, Self."
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Date: 1752, 1791
"Life's records rise on ev'ry side, / And Conscience spreads those volumes wide; / Which faithful registers were brought / By pale-ey'd Fear and busy Thought. / Those faults which artful men conceal, / Stand here engrav'd with pen of steel, / By Conscience, that impartial scribe!"
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