"Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, And Fear her danger; opens a new world When this, the present, palls."
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"Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom, On thee shall press no ponderous tomb; But on thy turf shall roses rear Their leaves, the earliest of the year."
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"Man's conscience is the oracle of God."
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"Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight."
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"A man must serve his time to every trade, Save censure-critics all are ready made. Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote With just enough learning to misquote."
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"In solitude, when we are least alone."
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"I awoke one day to find myself famous."
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"If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive."
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"It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged."
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"Good but rarely came from good advice."
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"I am ashes where once I was fire."
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"History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page."
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"Though the day of my Destiny 's over, And the star of my Fate hath declined, Thy soft heart refused to discover The faults which so many could find."
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"I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye."
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"In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication."
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"Now what I love in women is, they won't Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it. So well, the very truth seems falsehood to it."
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"Glory, like the phoenix 'midst her fires, Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires."
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"She was like me in lineaments-- her eyes Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice, they said were like to mine; But soften'd all, and temper'd into beauty; She had the same lone thoughts and wanderings, The quest of hidden knowledge, and a mind To comprehend the universe: nor these Alone, but with them gentler powers than mine, Pity, and smiles, and tears-- which I had not; And tenderness-- but that I had for her; Humility-- and that I never had. Her faults were mine-- her virtues were her own-- I loved her, and destroy'd her!"
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"Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it."
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"The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose."
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