"They never fail who die in a great cause."
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"This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal."
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"Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance."
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"There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell. But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell!"
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"When Newton saw an apple fall, he found In that slight startle from his contemplation- 'Tis said (for I'll not answer above ground For any sage's creed or calculation)- A mode of proving that the earth turn'd round In a most natural whirl, called 'gravitation'; And this is the sole mortal who could grapple, Since Adam, with a fall, or with an apple."
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"No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!"
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"But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be."
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"Despair and Genius are too oft connected"
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"Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men."
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"I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?"
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"The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh."
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"Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages."
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"Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling."
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"In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee"
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"I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness."
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"Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste."
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"Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!"
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"Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations."
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"The English winter - ending in July to recommence in August"
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"Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile."
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