"A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded, A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded."

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"Society is now one polish'd horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored."

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"The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore."

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"Heroic, stoic Cato, the sententious, Who lent his lady to his friend Hortensius."

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"And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'T is that I may not weep."

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"Ah, surely nothing dies but something mourns."

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""Arcades ambo,"--id est, blackguards both."

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"The mere repetition of the Cantilena of lawyers cannot make it law, unless it can be traced to some competent authority; and if it be irreconcilable, to some clear legal principle."

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"A delusion, a mockery, and a snare."

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"Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility."

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"For his chaste Muse employ'd her heaven-taught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire, Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot."

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"What is your sex's earliest, latest care, Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair."

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"Alas! by some degree of woe We every bliss must gain; The heart can ne'er a transport know That never feels a pain."

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"Where none admire, 't is useless to excel; Where none are beaux, 't is vain to be a belle."

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"The lover in the husband may be lost."

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"Women, like princes, find few real friends."

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"How much the wife is dearer than the bride."

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"None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair, But love can hope where reason would despair."

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"A dinner lubricates business."

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"The elegant simplicity of the three per cents."

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"The accident of an accident."

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"When I forget my sovereign, may my God forget me."

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"None but himself can be his parallel."

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"What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others."

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"Continual dropping wears away a stone."

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"In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers."

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"England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland."

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"It is only the first step which costs."

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"Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing."

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"Death,--a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh."

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"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."

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"Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind."

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"For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing."

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"Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man,--yesterday in embryo, to-morrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hair's-breadth of time assigned to thee live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it."

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"No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into "the secrets of the nether world," as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour's heart."

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"Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory."

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"As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion."

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"What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee."

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"A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season."

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"Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought."

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"Remember that man's life lies all within this present, as 't were but a hair's-breadth of time; as for the rest, the past is gone, the future yet unseen. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells."

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"Whatever happens at all happens as it should; thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch narrowly."

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"Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature."

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"Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it. . . . Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle."

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"This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs."

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"All is ephemeral,--fame and the famous as well."

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"The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning. Further, this nature is styled Truth; and it is the first cause of all that is true."

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"By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered."

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"If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance."

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"No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms."

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