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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

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Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.

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I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse borne away with every breath! Misplaced upon the throne misplaced in life. I know not what I could have been, but feel I am not what I should be let it end.

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I learned to love despair.

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But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.

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

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Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried.

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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

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Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.

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This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description.

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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

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Our life is two fold Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality.

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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

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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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Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

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If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

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I am ashes where once I was fire.

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The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose.

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I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.

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May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And pay for poems--when they pay for coats.

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