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Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.

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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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I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

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He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)

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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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But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.

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As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any other thing that’s false Before you trust in critics.

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Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.

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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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[My advice] will one day be found With other relics of 'a former world,' When this world shall be former, underground, Thrown topsy-turvy, twisted, crisped, and curled, Baked, fried or burnt, turned inside-out, or drowned, Like all the worlds before, which have been hurled First out of, and then back again to Chaos, The Superstratum which will overlay us.

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The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.

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There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.

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And those who saw, it did surprise, Such drops could fall from human eyes.

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Then, fare thee well, deceitful Maid!

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There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.

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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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So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart.

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No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.

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Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.

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