"Silence 'tis awe decrees."
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"Death: the grand perhaps."
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"In the first is the last, in thy will is my power to believe."
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"The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's Is ? not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be ? but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means."
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"Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men."
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"We mortals cross the ocean of this world Each in his average cabin of a life; The bests not big, the worst yields elbowroom."
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"Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks."
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"Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!"
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"That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it."
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"This could but have happened once,- And we missed it, lost it forever."
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"O never star Was lost; here We all aspire to heaven and there is heaven Above us. If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud, It is but for a time; I press God's lamp Close to my breast; its splendor soon or late Will pierce the gloom. I shall emerge some day."
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"Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy."
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"When I love most, love is disguised. In hate; and when hate is surprised, in love, then I hate most."
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"What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?"
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"That moment she was mine, mine, fair, Perfectly pure and good: I found A thing to do, and all her hair In one long yellow string I wound Three times her little throat around, And strangled her. No pain felt she; I am quite sure she felt no pain. As a shut bud that holds a bee, I warily oped her lids: again Laughed the blue eyes without a stain. And I untightened the next tress About her neck; her cheek once more Blushed bright beneath my burning kiss . . ."
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"In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity"
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"But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know."
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"Life is an empty dream."
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"What so wild as words are?"
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"What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same."
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