"He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him."
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"There is pleasure in the pathless woods."
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"It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one."
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"All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most."
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"Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die."
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"I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me, And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, Where I beheld what never was to be."
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"As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any other thing that’s false Before you trust in critics."
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"Lord of himself; that heritage of woe!"
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"A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war."
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"Jealousy dislikes the world to know it."
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"A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress."
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"'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't."
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"For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?"
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"One hates an author that's all author."
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"I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand."
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"What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements."
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"Rough Johnson, the great moralist."
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"Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger."
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"Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?"
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"Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people."
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