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Despair and Genius are too oft connected

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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.

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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

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The law of heaven and earth is life for life.

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He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him.

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Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.

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Such hath it been--shall be--beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one.

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'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.

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The devil was the first democrat

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History - the devil's scripture

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It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon the shore are, one by one, broken, but the ocean conquers nevertheless. It overwhelms the Armada, it wears out the rock. In like manner, whatever the struggle of individuals, the great cause will gather strength.

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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

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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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The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.

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

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Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.

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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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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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