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Despair and Genius are too oft connected

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Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.

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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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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.

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Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity.

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I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.

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This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

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Love rules the camp, the court, the grove - for love is Heaven, and Heaven is love.

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I die but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed.

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To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

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But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.

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My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

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Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!

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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

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So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

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I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

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I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through The growing waters; it unmans one quite, Especially when life is rather new.

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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

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