"Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear."
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"The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend."
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"Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste."
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"Adversity is the first path to truth."
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"What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!"
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"A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins."
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"Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Botswain, a dog."
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"I love not man the less, but Nature more."
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"I am not now That which I have been."
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"Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it."
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"Happiness was born a twin."
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"The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports."
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"I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure's rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles."
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"What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence."
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"For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands."
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"The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie."
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"For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear."
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"Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored."
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"Till taught by pain, men know not water's worth."
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"Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!"
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