"None think the great unhappy but the great."

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"The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone."

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"How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun."

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"Time elaborately thrown away."

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"To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain."

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"Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue."

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"Prayer ardent opens heaven."

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"The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart."

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"Accept a miracle instead of wit,-- See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ."

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"The man that blushes is not quite a brute."

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"Too low they build, who build beneath the stars."

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"The course of Nature is the art of God."

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"'T is elder Scripture, writ by God's own hand,-- Scripture authentic! uncorrupt by man."

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"Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies."

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"An undevout astronomer is mad."

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"Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, And trifles life."

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"Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind."

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"And friend received with thumps upon the back."

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"Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation."

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"One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousands takes a specious name, War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame."

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"There buds the promise of celestial worth."

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"For her own breakfast she 'll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a stratagem."

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"The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear."

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"And all may do what has by man been done."

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"Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt, And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt."

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"And waste their music on the savage race."

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"Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair."

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"A man of pleasure is a man of pains."

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"In records that defy the tooth of time."

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"They that on glorious ancestors enlarge, Produce their debt instead of their discharge."

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"Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote."

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"The man that makes a character makes foes."

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"Be wise with speed; A fool at forty is a fool indeed."

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"Great let me call him, for he conquered me."

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"In the days when we went gypsying A long time ago; The lads and lassies in their best Were dress'd from top to toe."

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"I love it, I love it, and who shall dare To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?"

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"How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start When memory plays an old tune on the heart!"

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"Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight! Make me a child again, just for to-night!"

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"Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years! I am so weary of toil and of tears,-- Toil without recompense, tears all in vain! Take them, and give me my childhood again!"

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"And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness, Round our restlessness His rest."

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"Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man."

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"And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men."

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"God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in 't."

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"The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech: It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the painted scene, Boards, actors, prompters, gaslight, and costume, And take for a worthier stage the soul itself, Its shifting fancies and celestial lights, With all its grand orchestral silences To keep the pauses of its rhythmic sounds."

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"She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows."

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"Death forerunneth Love to win "Sweetest eyes were ever seen.""

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"Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death."

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"But so fair, She takes the breath of men away Who gaze upon her unaware."

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"By thunders of white silence."

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"Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west."

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