"Gloomy as night he stands."

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"Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone."

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"To heal divisions, to relieve th' opprest; In virtue rich; in blessing others, blest."

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"The bank he press'd, and gently kiss'd the ground."

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"And what so tedious as a twice-told tale."

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"Yet taught by time, my heart has learn'd to glow For others' good, and melt at others' woe."

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"Whose well-taught mind the present age surpast."

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"Impatient straight to flesh his virgin sword."

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"Unbless'd thy hand, if in this low disguise Wander, perhaps, some inmate of the skies."

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"For dear to gods and men is sacred song. Self-taught I sing; by Heaven, and Heaven alone, The genuine seeds of poesy are sown."

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"The fool of fate,--thy manufacture, man."

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"Who love too much, hate in the like extreme, And both the golden mean alike condemn."

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"By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, And what to those we give, to Jove is lent."

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"How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!"

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"A winy vapour melting in a tear."

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"Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl."

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"Nor can one word be chang'd but for a worse."

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"And not a man appears to tell their fate."

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"The sex is ever to a soldier kind."

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"Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind."

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"And rest at last where souls unbodied dwell, In ever-flowing meads of Asphodel."

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"Know from the bounteous heaven all riches flow; And what man gives, the gods by man bestow."

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"And o'er the past Oblivion stretch her wing."

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"A heaven of charms divine Nausicaa lay."

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"Oh, pity human woe! 'T is what the happy to the unhappy owe."

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"For too much rest itself becomes a pain."

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"True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest,-- Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest."

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"Like a pale martyr in his shirt of fire."

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"A poem round and perfect as a star."

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"In winter, when the dismal rain Comes down in slanting lines, And Wind, that grand old harper, smote His thunder-harp of pines."

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"The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past."

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"The heart bowed down by weight of woe To weakest hope will cling."

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"I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side."

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"It was the calm and silent night! Seven hundred years and fifty-three Had Rome been growing up to might, And now was queen of land and sea. No sound was heard of clashing wars, Peace brooded o'er the hushed domain; Apollo, Pallas, Jove, and Mars Held undisturbed their ancient reign In the solemn midnight, Centuries ago."

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"He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse."

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"With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart."

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"I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race."

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"Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns."

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"Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight."

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"Like glimpses of forgotten dreams."

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"This laurel greener from the brows Of him that utter'd nothing base."

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"Broad based upon her people's will, And compassed by the inviolate sea."

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"Ah, why Should life all labour be?"

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"I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell."

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"Here at the quiet limit of the world."

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"A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair."

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"Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?"

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"From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent."

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"O love! O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew."

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"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,-- These three alone lead life to sovereign power."

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