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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.

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For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

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It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment - but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?

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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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The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

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Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

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War, war is still the cry,-"war even to the knife!"

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Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.

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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.

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A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a fools-cap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town.

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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

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For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

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Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never

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Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.

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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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Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

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Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange, Although he fleeced the flags of every nation, For into a prime minister but change His title, and 'tis nothing but taxation.

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My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone!

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But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.

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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

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