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"What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children."
"Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!"
"O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass."
"To be an Error and to be Cast out is a part of God's Design."
"The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever."
"Lo! now the direful monster, whose skin clings To his strong bones, strides o'er the groaning rocks: He withers all in silence, and his hand Unclothes the earth, and freezes up frail life."
"Opposition is true friendship."
"Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish."
"It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science."
"Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth."
"Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd"
"Where cheating is, there's mischief there."
"But if at church they would give some ale. And a pleasant fire our souls to regale. We'd sing and we'd pray all the live long day, Nor ever once from the church to stray."
"Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained."
"He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne'er get out."
"When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep."
"We are here to learn to endure the beams of love"
"Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature."
"Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true."
"Children of the future age Reading this indignant page Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime"