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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

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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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Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails.

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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

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What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?

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Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.

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The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!

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

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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

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A little still she strove, and much repented, And whispering “I will ne'er consent”—consented.

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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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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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There is no passion, more spectral or fantastical than hate, not even its opposite, love, so peoples air, with phantoms, as this madness of the heart.

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I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the moon, in spite of the want of atmosphere.

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I only know we loved in vain; I only feel-farewell! farewell!

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Who then will explain the explanation?

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A sort of hostile transaction, very necessary to keep the world going, but by no means a sinecure to the parties concerned.

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As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any other thing that’s false Before you trust in critics.

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And those who saw, it did surprise, Such drops could fall from human eyes.

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Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.

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