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And what is writ is writ - / Would it were worthier!

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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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Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.

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When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.

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Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

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It would be difficult, perhaps, to find the annals of a nation less stained with crimes than those of the Armenians, whose virtues have been those of peace, and their vices those of compulsion. But whatever may have been their destiny and it has been bitter whatever it may be in future, their country must ever be one of the most interesting on the globe.

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I came to realize clearly that the mind is no other than the Mountain and the Rivers and the great wide Earth, the Sun and the Moon and the Sky”.

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For the night Shows stars and women in a better light.

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To have joy, one must share it.

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This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey Davy's lantern, by which coals Are safely mined for in the mode he mentions, Tombuctoo travels, voyages to the Poles, Are ways to benefit mankind, as true, Perhaps, as shooting them at Waterloo.

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And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.

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Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never

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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

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I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.

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But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on.

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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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What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er I be, The blight of life--the demon Thought.

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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.

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We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?

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He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!

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