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My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

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Hearts will break - yet brokenly, live on.

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...And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. Adversity is the first path to truth: He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.

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Think not I am what I appear.

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Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf.

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I have not loved the World, nor the World me; I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed To its idolatries a patient knee, Nor coined my cheek to smiles,-nor cried aloud In worship of an echo.

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I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.

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Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill.

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Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.

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

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Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer

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This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.

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He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.

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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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Happiness was born a twin.

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Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity.

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What opposite discoveries we have seen! (Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.) One makes new noses, one a guillotine, One breaks your bones, one sets them in their sockets; But vaccination certainly has been A kind antithesis to Congreve's rockets.

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Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave.

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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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Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.

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