“ Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where. ”
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“ Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be. ”
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“ Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. ”
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“ I am sore wounded but not slain I will lay me down and bleed a while And then rise up to fight again ”
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“ But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much. ”
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“ Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. ”
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“ Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves: who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves. ”
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“ For you may palm upon us new for old: All, as they say, that glitters, is not gold. ”
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“ so meer Poets and meer Musicians, are as sottish as meer Drunkards are, who live in a continuall mist without seeing, or judgeing any thing clearly. A man should be learn'd in severall Sciences, and should have a rea∣sonable Philosophicall, and ni some measure a Mathematicall head; to be a compleat and excellent Poet ”
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“ Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me. ”
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“ A horrid stillness first invades the ear,And in that silence we the tempest fear. ”
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“ The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it. ”
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“ We spirits have just such natures We had for all the world, when human creatures; And, therefore, I, that was an actress here, Play all my tricks in hell, a goblin there. ”
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“ Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ”
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“ Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me. ”
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“ Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me. I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more. ”
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