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No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.

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Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge.

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The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!

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I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

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My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.

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What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.

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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.

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Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, less beloved head?

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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

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None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.

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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.

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There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.

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But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.

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From the mingled strength of shade and light A new creation rises to my sight, Such heav'nly figures from his pencil flow, So warm with light his blended colors glow. . . . . The glowing portraits, fresh from life, that bring Home to our hearts the truth from which they spring.

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Sublime tobacco! which from east to west, Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His hours, and rivals opium and his brides; Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand, Though not less loved, in Wapping or the Strand: Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe, When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe; Like other charmers wooing the caress, More dazzlingly when daring in full dress; Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties Give me a cigar!

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So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

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I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.

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It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

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Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

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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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