"Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss."
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"Damn description, it is always disgusting."
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"To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think."
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"He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!"
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"Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not."
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"Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair."
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"There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?"
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"The music, and the banquet, and the wine-- The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers, The sparkling eyes, and flashing ornaments-- The white arms and the raven hair--the braids, And bracelets; swan-like bosoms, and the necklace, An India in itself, yet dazzling not."
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"Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence."
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"Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep."
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"This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description."
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"Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well."
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"'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come."
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"Fools are my theme, let satire be my song."
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"I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue."
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"Egypt! from whose all dateless tombs arose Forgotten Pharaohs from their long repose, And shook within their pyramids to hear A new Cambyses thundering in their ear; While the dark shades of forty ages stood Like startled giants by Nile's famous flood."
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"Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolish'd the right arm Of his own country."
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"Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers."
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"Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were."
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"One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer."
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