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My altars are the mountains and the ocean.

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Poetry should only occupy the idle.

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I have not loved the World, nor the World me; I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed To its idolatries a patient knee, Nor coined my cheek to smiles,-nor cried aloud In worship of an echo.

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The world is a bundle of hay, Mankind are the asses that pull, Each tugs in a different way And the greatest of all is John Bull!

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And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.

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My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone!

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Self praise is no praise at all.

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I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day.

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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?

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It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.

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I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.

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There is pleasure in the pathless woods.

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I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.

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Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails.

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Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave.

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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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Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!

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Nothing so difficult as a beginning In poesy, unless perhaps the end.

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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.

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