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All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. (Charles Lamb)
Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret. View quote
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Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea. View quote
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No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us. View quote
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There is a pleasure in affecting affectation. View quote
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Fly not yet 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon. View quote
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Thus, when the lamp that lighted The traveller at first goes out, He feels awhile benighted, And looks around in fear and doubt. But soon, the prospect clearing, By cloudless starlight on he treads, And thinks no lamp so cheering As that light which Heaven sheds. View quote
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Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years, One minute of heaven is worth them all. View quote
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A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made 'T is but black eyes and lemonade. View quote
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'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dear And that when we 're far from the lips we love, We 've but to make love to the lips we are near. View quote
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When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love. (Charles Lamb)
The light that lies In woman's eyes. View quote
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Ay, down to the dust with them, slaves as they are From this hour let the blood in their dastardly veins, That shrunk at the first touch of Liberty's war, Be wasted for tyrants, or stagnate in chains. View quote
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Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold. View quote
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When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power. View quote
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I give thee all, I can no more, Though poor the off'ring be My heart and lute are all the store That I can bring to thee. View quote
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There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet. View quote
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Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade. View quote
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Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea. View quote
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The vices of some men are magnificent. View quote
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By myself walking, To myself talking. (Charles Lamb)
And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon. View quote
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Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might. View quote
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Sun, and sky, and breeze, and solitary walks, and summer holidays, and the greenness of fields, and the delicious juices of meats and fishes, and society, and the cheerful glass, and candle-light, and fire-side conversations, and innocent vanities, and irony itself-- do these things go out with life? Can a ghost laugh, or shake his gaunt sides, when you are pleasant with him? View quote
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This very night I am going to leave off Tobacco! View quote
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