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I awoke one day to find myself famous.

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The music, and the banquet, and the wine-- The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers, The sparkling eyes, and flashing ornaments-- The white arms and the raven hair--the braids, And bracelets; swan-like bosoms, and the necklace, An India in itself, yet dazzling not.

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We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.

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I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

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

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A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense.

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In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

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Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

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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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Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylæ!

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Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared.

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Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief.

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What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.

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Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.

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The basis of your religion is injustice. The Son of God the pure, the immaculate, the innocent, is sacrificed for the guilty. This proves his heroism, but no more does away with man's sin than a school boy's volunteering to be flogged for another would exculpate a dunce from negligence.

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I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture.

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I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse borne away with every breath! Misplaced upon the throne misplaced in life. I know not what I could have been, but feel I am not what I should be let it end.

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The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.

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When Newton saw an apple fall, he found In that slight startle from his contemplation- 'Tis said (for I'll not answer above ground For any sage's creed or calculation)- A mode of proving that the earth turn'd round In a most natural whirl, called 'gravitation'; And this is the sole mortal who could grapple, Since Adam, with a fall, or with an apple.

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'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

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