"Too civil by half."

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"Days that need borrow No part of their good morrow From a fore-spent night of sorrow."

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"Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she, That shall command my heart and me."

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"Where'er she lie, Locked up from mortal eye, In shady leaves of destiny."

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"A happy soul, that all the way To heaven hath a summer's day."

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"The modest front of this small floor, Believe me, reader, can say more Than many a braver marble can,-- "Here lies a truly honest man!""

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"Sydneian showers Of sweet discourse, whose powers Can crown old Winter's head with flowers."

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"Life that dares send A challenge to his end, And when it comes, say, Welcome, friend!"

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"The conscious water saw its God and blushed."

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"The fallyng out of faithfull frends is the renuyng of loue."

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"Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; She feels no biting pang the while she sings; Nor, as she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things."

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"Thirty dayes hath Nouember, Aprill, June, and September, February hath xxviii alone, And all the rest have xxxi."

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"Each cursed his fate that thus their project crossed; How hard their lot who neither won nor lost!"

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"'T is always morning somewhere in the world."

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"My life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, But ere the shades of evening close Is scattered on the ground--to die."

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"Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage,--the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power."

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"That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery."

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"In this awfully stupendous manner, at which Reason stands aghast, and Faith herself is half confounded, was the grace of God to man at length manifested."

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"Fishes that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty."

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"Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty."

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"I could not love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honour more."

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"When flowing cups pass swiftly round With no allaying Thames."

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"Oh, could you view the melody Of every grace And music of her face, You 'd drop a tear; Seeing more harmony In her bright eye Than now you hear."

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"But on and up, where Nature's heart Beats strong amid the hills."

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"A man's best things are nearest him, Lie close about his feet."

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"I wandered by the brookside, I wandered by the mill; I could not hear the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still."

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"Great thoughts, great feelings came to them, Like instincts, unawares."

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"The beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard."

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"May see thee now, though late, redeem thy name, And glorify what else is damn'd to fame."

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"He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face."

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"The schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand, Whistling aloud to bear his courage up."

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"The Grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou 'rt named: Nature, appall'd, Shakes off her wonted firmness."

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"The good he scorn'd Stalk'd off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost, Not to return; or if it did, in visits Like those of angels, short and far between."

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"Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul! Sweetener of life! and solder of society!"

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"Of joys departed, Not to return, how painful the remembrance!"

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"The cup goes round: And who so artful as to put it by! 'T is long since Death had the majority."

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"And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again."

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"Ever judge of men by their professions. For though the bright moment of promising is but a moment, and cannot be prolonged, yet if sincere in its moment's extravagant goodness, why, trust it, and know the man by it, I say,--not by his performance; which is half the world's work, interfere as the world needs must with its accidents and circumstances: the profession was purely the man's own. I judge people by what they might be,--not are, nor will be."

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"All service ranks the same with God,-- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first."

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"Lofty designs must close in like effects."

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"That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it."

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"Some unsuspected isle in the far seas,-- Some unsuspected isle in far-off seas."

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"If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far."

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"O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead."

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"Other heights in other lives, God willing."

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"Just my vengeance complete, The man sprang to his feet, Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, and prayed! So, I was afraid!"

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"Be sure that God Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart."

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"Oh never star Was lost here but it rose afar."

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"Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Æschylus, because we read his plays!"

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"That 's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture."

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