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APHORISM X.
Self-superintendence! that any thing, should overlook itself! Is not this a parodox, and hard to understand? It is, indeed, difficult, and to the imbruted sensualist a direct contradiction: and yet most truly does the poet exclaim,
--Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how mean a thing is man! |
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