"There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired."
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"Our birth is nothing but our death begun; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire."
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"Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed."
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"In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing."
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"Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, "That all men are about to live.""
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"The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone."
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"Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies."
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"One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame."
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"An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there."
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"Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness."
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"Read nature; nature is a friend to truth."
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"The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done"
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"The purpose firm is equal to the deed"
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"Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root."
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"Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair."
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"He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him."
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"The course of Nature is the art of God"
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"We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?"
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"Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!"
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"Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven."
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