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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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Liberty - eternal spirit of the chainless mind

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By headless Charles see heartless Henry lies.

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Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.

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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

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Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste.

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Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.

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I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

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I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.

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Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.

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Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days - whatever there may be for the dust - the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.

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Marriage, from love, like vinegar from wine-- A sad, sour sober beverage--by time Is sharpened from its high celestial flavor Down to a very homely household savor.

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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

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Though the day of my Destiny 's over, And the star of my Fate hath declined, Thy soft heart refused to discover The faults which so many could find.

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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.

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He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)

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Absence - that common cure of love.

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My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.

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I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me, And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, Where I beheld what never was to be.

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Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

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