"There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen."
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"Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my questions with readiness. Some present in review before me the events of past ages; others reveal to me the secrets of Nature. These teach me how to live, and those how to die; these dispel my melancholy by their mirth, and amuse me by their sallies of wit. Some there are who prepare my soul to suffer everything, to desire nothing, and to become thoroughly acquainted with itself. In a word, they open the door to all the arts and sciences."
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"Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe."
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"Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!"
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"Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?"
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"For style beyond the genius never dares."
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"How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!"
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"Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand."
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"For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay."
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"And tears are heard within the harp I touch."
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"From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world's well beaten ways."
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"Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief"
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"I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself."
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"The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last."
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"I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears."
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"For virtue only finds eternal Fame."
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"A good death does honour to a whole life."
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"And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt."
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"The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts."
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"You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me."
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