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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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