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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

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Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.

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Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister

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Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart.

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This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

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Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.

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The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.

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Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.

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Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

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But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.

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For all we know that English people are/ Fed upon beef - I won't say much of beer/ Because 'tis liquor only, and being far/ From this my subject, has no business here;/ We know too, they are very fond of war,/ A pleasure - like all pleasures - rather dear;/ So were the Cretans - from which I infer/ That beef and battle both were owing her

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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

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Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great!

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A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.

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Not to admire, is all the art I know To make men happy, or to keep them so. Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago; And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach From his translation; but had none admired, Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired?

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One hates an author that's all author.

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Smiles form the channels of a future tear.

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One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine.

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I die but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed.

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