"The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear."
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"Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but himselfThat hideous sight,-a naked human heart."
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"Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace."
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"They most the world enjoy who least admire."
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"But love, like wine, gives a tumultuous bliss, Heighten'd indeed beyond all mortal pleasures; But mingles pangs and madness in the bowl."
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"Ah! what is human life? How, like the dial's tardy-moving shade, Day after day slides from us unperceiv'd! The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth; Too subtle is the movement to be seen; Yet soon the hour is up--and we are gone."
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"A strange alternative * * *Must women have a doctor or a dance?"
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"A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt."
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"O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone."
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"Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour."
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"The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze."
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"The spirit walks of every day deceased."
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"Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars."
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"Not all the pride of beauty; Those eyes, that tell us what the sun is made of; Those lips, whose touch is to be bought with life; Those hills of driven snow, which seen are felt: All these possessed are nought, but as they are The proof, the substance of an inward passion, And the rich plunder of a taken heart."
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"The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away."
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"Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving; and procures contempt Instead of gratitude."
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"This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule; Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free."
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"Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign."
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"Some go to Church, proud humbly to repent, And come back much more guilty than they went: One way they look, another way they steer, Pray to the Gods; but would have Mortals hear; And when their sins they set sincerely down, They'll find that their Religion has been one."
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"[The] public path of life Is dirty."
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