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Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

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Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty.

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For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

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This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

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

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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

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So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry.

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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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My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

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Rough Johnson, the great moralist.

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I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse -- borne away with every breath!

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There is music in all things, if men had ears.

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I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.

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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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I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.

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But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on.

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When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years.

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Eat, drink and love...the rest is not worth a nickel

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And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They have a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.

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Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight.

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