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It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship

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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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Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.

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I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

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Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

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What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

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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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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure's rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.

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I am not now That which I have been.

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Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

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Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

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Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past.

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I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.

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And life 's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

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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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It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship

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What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!

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Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.

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But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.

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