All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
LORD BYRONNewton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only “like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth.”
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
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Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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Who then will explain the explanation?
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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