"What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?"
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"I learned to love despair."
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"Bologna is celebrated for producing popes, painters, and sausage."
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"The dew of compassion is a tear."
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"Heaven gives its favourites-early death."
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"A pretty woman is a welcome guest."
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"It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep."
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"Hatred is the madness of the heart."
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"All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage."
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"Come what may, I have been blest."
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"Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were; First in the race that led to glory's goal, They won, and pass'd away--Is this the whole?"
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"Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land!"
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"It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time."
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"It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment - but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?"
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"Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen."
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"Friendship is Love without his wings!"
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"In solitude, where we are least alone."
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"I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week."
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"The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!"
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"For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!"
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