"Go let thy less than woman's hand Assume the distaff not the brand."
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"In commitment, we dash the hopes of a thousand potential selves."
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"That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst."
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"And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They have a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being."
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"I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library."
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"A sleep without dreams, after a rough day of toil, is what we covet most; and yet How clay shrinks back from more quiescent clay! The very Suicide that pays his debt at once without installments (an old way of paying debts, which creditors regret) Lets out impatiently his rushing breath, less from disgust of life than dread of death."
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"And Doubt and Discord step 'twixt thine and thee."
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"But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless."
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"Twas twilight, and the sunless day went down Over the waste of waters; like a veil, Which, if withdrawn, would but disclose the frown Of one whose hate is mask'd but to assail."
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"But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar."
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"The poetry of speech."
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"Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, less beloved head?"
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"The Christian has greatly the advantage of the unbeliever, having everything to gain and nothing to lose."
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"Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart."
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"A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them."
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"History - the devil's scripture"
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"Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end."
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"Frienship is eros...without wings"
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"I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one."
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"I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further."
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