"A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away."
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"One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed."
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"Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart- rendered to God for his goodness."
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"Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive."
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"Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!"
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"Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight."
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"I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love."
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"It is the month of June, The month of leaves and roses, When pleasant sights salute the eyes, And pleasant scents the noses."
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"The taste forever refines in the study of women."
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"The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence."
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"The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change."
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"I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty."
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"If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love."
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"Nature's noblemen are everywhere,--in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman."
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"How beautiful it is for a man to die Upon the walls of Zion! to be called Like a watch-worn and weary sentinel, To put his armour off, and rest in heaven!"
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"I'm weary of my lonely but And of its blasted tree, The very lake is like my lot, So silent constantly-- I've liv'd amid the forest gloom Until I almost fear-- When will the thrilling voices come My spirit thirsts to hear?"
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"I love to go and mingle with the young In the gay festal room--when every heart Is beating faster than the merry tune, And their blue eyes are restless, and their lips Parted with eager joy, and their round cheeks Flush'd with the beautiful motion of the dance."
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"How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition."
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"Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own."
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"The Spring is here--the delicate footed May, With its slight fingers full of leaves and flowers, And with it comes a thirst to be away. In lovelier scenes to pass these sweeter hours."
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