"Framed to make women false."

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"Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust."

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"Child Rowland to the dark tower came, His word was still,--Fie, foh, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man."

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"Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont, Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love, Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up."

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"Patience and sorrow strove Who should express her goodliest."

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"I have Immortal longings in me."

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"That full star that ushers in the even."

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"'T is better to be vile than vile esteem'd, When not to be receives reproach of being; And the just pleasure lost which is so deem'd, Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing."

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"Cursed be he that moves my bones."

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"So on the tip of his subduing tongue All kinds of arguments and questions deep, All replication prompt, and reason strong, For his advantage still did wake and sleep. To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep, He had the dialect and different skill, Catching all passion in his craft of will."

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"O father, what a hell of witchcraft lies In the small orb of one particular tear."

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"Bad in the best, though excellent in neither."

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"Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught?"

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"Crabbed age and youth Cannot live together."

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"No, I am that I am, and they that level At my abuses reckon up their own."

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"So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return."

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"For seldom shall she hear a tale So sad, so tender, and so true."

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"My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep."

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"Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblems right meet of decency does yield."

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"I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed."

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"A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo."

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"Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn."

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"God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness."

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"Learn to read slow: all other graces Will follow in their proper places."

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"We thinke no greater blisse then such To be as be we would, When blessed none but such as be The same as be they should."

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"With that she dasht her on the lippes, So dyed double red: Hard was the heart that gave the blow, Soft were those lips that bled."

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"I 've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning."

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"Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will; Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!"

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"Drink, pretty creature, drink!"

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"Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel No self-reproach."

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"And often, glad no more, We wear a face of joy because We have been glad of yore."

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"Action is transitory,--a step, a blow; The motion of a muscle, this way or that."

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"May no rude hand deface it, And its forlorn hic jacet!"

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"There 's something in a flying horse, There 's something in a huge balloon."

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"Yet sometimes, when the secret cup Of still and serious thought went round, It seemed as if he drank it up, He felt with spirit so profound."

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"And mighty poets in their misery dead."

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"Something between a hindrance and a help."

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"A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free."

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"As if the man had fixed his face, In many a solitary place, Against the wind and open sky!"

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"One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can."

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"The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside a human door."

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"Full twenty times was Peter feared, For once that Peter was respected."

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"Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,-- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me."

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"Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this toil and trouble?"

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"Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher."

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"One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave."

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"And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food."

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"And 't is my faith, that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes."

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"Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way."

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"Sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart."

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