"He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe."
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"What though my winged hours of bliss have been, Like angel visits, few and far between."
"Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep."
"Fundamental assumptions in general and scientific assumptions in particular are so hard to overturn because they are based on belief. Beliefs are so hard to overcome because they are irrational and therefore do not yield to logical argument."
"Coming events cast their shadows before."
"The only thing that is fundamental (real) is consciousness itself; all else is virtual- i.e., a result of an exchange of information within consciousness."
"Beauty's witching sway is now to me a star that's fallen-a dream that's passed away."
"The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger's troubled night depart, And the star of peace return."
"On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh, No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I, No harp like my own could so cheerily play, And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray."
"Whose lines are mottoes of the heart,Whose truths electrify the sage."
"Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved a thousand years, The battle and the breeze!"
"Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name."
"A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear."
"O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair?"
"Who hail thee, Man! the pilgrim of the day, spouse of the worm, and brother of the clay."
"The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man."
"On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly."
"Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing, Read you not the wrong you're doing In my cheek's pale hue? All my life with sorrow strewing; Wed or cease to woo."
"Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art."
"Ye are brothers! ye are men! And we conquer but to save."