"In virtues nothing earthly could surpass her, Save thine "incomparable oil," Macassar!"

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"Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs."

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"Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till--'t is gone, and all is gray."

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"There was a laughing devil in his sneer."

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"He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled,-- The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers."

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"There 's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away."

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"All who joy would win Must share it, happiness was born a twin."

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"Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow,-- Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now."

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"Who hath not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark of beauty's heavenly ray? Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight, His changing cheek, his sinking heart, confess The might, the majesty of loveliness?"

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"Here 's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate; And whatever sky 's above me, Here 's a heart for every fate."

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"A long, long kiss,--a kiss of youth and love."

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"Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies."

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"Cervantes smil'd Spain's chivalry away."

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"The best of prophets of the future is the past."

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"Friendship is Love without his wings."

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"A "strange coincidence," to use a phrase By which such things are settled nowadays."

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"Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three To make a new Thermopylæ."

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"And puts himself upon his good behaviour."

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"Of all tales 't is the saddest,--and more sad, Because it makes us smile."

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"You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one? You have the letters Cadmus gave,-- Think ye he meant them for a slave?"

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"I awoke one morning and found myself famous."

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"The women pardon'd all except her face."

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"I 've stood upon Achilles' tomb, And heard Troy doubted: time will doubt of Rome."

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"What a strange thing is man! and what a stranger Is woman!"

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"But all have prices, From crowns to kicks, according to their vices."

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"'T is strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article."

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"Thrice happy he whose name has been well spelt In the despatch: I knew a man whose loss Was printed Grove, although his name was Grose."

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"'T is strange, but true; for truth is always strange,-- Stranger than fiction."

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"And after all, what is a lie? 'T is but The truth in masquerade."

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"But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."

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"The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung. . . . . . Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all except their sun is set."

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"And her face so fair Stirr'd with her dream, as rose-leaves with the air."

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"There 's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine."

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"And wrinkles, the damned democrats, won't flatter."

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"He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat."

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"That all-softening, overpowering knell, The tocsin of the soul,--the dinner bell."

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"The Devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice."

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"When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter," And proved it,--'t was no matter what he said."

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"Oh "darkly, deeply, beautifully blue!" As some one somewhere sings about the sky."

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"Oh for a forty-parson power!"

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"In her first passion woman loves her lover: In all the others, all she loves is love."

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"Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing save the waves and I May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die."

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"These two hated with a hate Found only on the stage."

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"What say you to such a supper with such a woman?"

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"The precious porcelain of human clay."

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"All human history attests That happiness for man,--the hungry sinner!-- Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner."

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"Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save."

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""Whom the gods love die young," was said of yore."

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"Alas, the love of women! it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing."

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"The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free."

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