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Time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.

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The premises are so delightfully extensive, that two people might live together without ever seeing, hearing or meeting.

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Are not the mountains, waves, and skies as much a part of me, as I of them?

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

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Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave.

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I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South

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Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great!

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And hold up to the sun my little taper.

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There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.

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Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.

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To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

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The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

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Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

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Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.

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History - the devil's scripture

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Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

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Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.

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For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

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Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.

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So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart.

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