"And wrinkles, the damned democrats, won't flatter."
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"Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!"
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"On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar."
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"Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer"
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"Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty."
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"The cold, the changed, perchance the dead, anew, The mourn'd, the loved, the lost,-too many, yet how few!"
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"And hold up to the sun my little taper."
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"By Heaven! it is a splendid sight to see For one who hath no friend, no brother there."
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"Brisk Confidence still best with woman copes: Pique her and soothe in turn-soon Passion crowns thy hopes."
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"Many are poets, but without the name;For what is Poesy but to createFrom overfeeling Good or Ill; and aimAt an external life beyond our fate,And be the new Prometheus of new men,Bestowing fire from Heaven, and then, too late,Finding the pleasure given repaid with pain"
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"But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil."
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"There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them."
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"Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen."
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"Marriage, from love, like vinegar from wine-- A sad, sour sober beverage--by time Is sharpened from its high celestial flavor Down to a very homely household savor."
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"Here's a sigh to those who love me,And a smile to those who hate;And, whatever sky's above me,Here's a heart for every fate."
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"There is no passion, more spectral or fantastical than hate, not even its opposite, love, so peoples air, with phantoms, as this madness of the heart."
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"Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's!"
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"It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon the shore are, one by one, broken, but the ocean conquers nevertheless. It overwhelms the Armada, it wears out the rock. In like manner, whatever the struggle of individuals, the great cause will gather strength."
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"My native land, good night!"
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"I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the moon, in spite of the want of atmosphere."
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