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Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

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

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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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Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

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

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But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be.

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No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.

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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 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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Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end.

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How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate; and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this.

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Self praise is no praise at all.

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Socrates said, our only knowledge was "To know that nothing could be known;" a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present. Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only "like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth."

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Old man! 'Tis not difficult to die.

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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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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!

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A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.

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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover - but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

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And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.

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The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.

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