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I cannot conceive why people will always mix up my own character and opinions with those of the imaginary beings which, as a poet, I have the right and liberty to draw.

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Many are poets, but without the name;For what is Poesy but to createFrom overfeeling Good or Ill; and aimAt an external life beyond our fate,And be the new Prometheus of new men,Bestowing fire from Heaven, and then, too late,Finding the pleasure given repaid with pain

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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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Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.

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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.

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Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

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Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.

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Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.

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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

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Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your houses - that man your navy, and recruit your army - that have enabled you to defy the world, and can also defy you when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair. You may call the people a mob; but do not forget that a mob too often speaks the sentiments of the people.

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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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I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture.

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Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.

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Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

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The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.

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There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth

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Poetry should only occupy the idle.

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We of the craft are all crazy.

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