"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives."

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"And panting Time toil'd after him in vain."

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"A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn."

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"Hell is paved with good intentions."

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"Was ever poet so trusted before?"

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"There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,-- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail."

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"This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to."

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"Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new."

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"Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love! Rest here, distressed by poverty no more; Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before; Sleep undisturb'd within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine!"

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"For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill."

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"He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale."

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"A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he knows anything of the matter or not; an Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say."

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"A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping."

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"For drames always go by conthraries, my dear."

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"There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell."

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"Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs."

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""Then here goes another," says he, "to make sure, For there 's luck in odd numbers," says Rory O'More."

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"Reproof on her lips, but a smile in her eye."

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"Some write their wrongs in marble: he more just, Stoop'd down serene and wrote them in the dust,-- Trod under foot, the sport of every wind, Swept from the earth and blotted from his mind. There, secret in the grave, he bade them lie, And grieved they could not 'scape the Almighty eye."

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"Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things."

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"The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before!"

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"The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still."

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"Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail."

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"A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing."

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"She was good as she was fair, None--none on earth above her! As pure in thought as angels are: To know her was to love her."

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"Those that he loved so long and sees no more, Loved and still loves,--not dead, but gone before,-- He gathers round him."

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"Mine be a cot beside the hill; A beehive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near."

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"To vanish in the chinks that Time has made."

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"Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it."

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"That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,-- That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course."

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"Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay."

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"Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please."

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"Then never less alone than when alone."

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"Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, if they could; they have tried their talents at one or the other, and have failed; therefore they turn critics."

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"Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows; Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean."

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"A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora."

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"An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries, with spire steeples, which, as they cannot be referred to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and star."

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"Each matin bell, the Baron saith, Knells us back to a world of death."

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"Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and liberty, Ere I was old!"

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"In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal."

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"Alone, alone,--all, all alone; Alone on a wide, wide sea."

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"I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered."

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"Carv'd with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain."

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"I have heard of reasons manifold Why Love must needs be blind, But this the best of all I hold,-- His eyes are in his mind."

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"Nought cared this body for wind or weather When youth and I lived in 't together."

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"It sounds like stories from the land of spirits If any man obtains that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains. . . . . . . . . . Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures,--love and light, And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath; And three firm friends, more sure than day and night,-- Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death."

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"Ancestral voices prophesying war."

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"Without a breeze, without a tide, She steadies with upright keel."

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"Blest hour! it was a luxury--to be!"

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"To know, to esteem, to love, and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart!"

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