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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

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What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?

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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

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Still from the fount of joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings.

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The law of heaven and earth is life for life.

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He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept.

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With flowing tail and flying mane, Wide nostrils never stretched by pain, Mouth bloodless to bit or rein, And feet that iron never shod, And flanks unscar'd by spur or rod, A thousand horses - the wild - the free - Like waves that follow o'er the sea, Came thickly thundering on.

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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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This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

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When Newton saw an apple fall, he found In that slight startle from his contemplation- 'Tis said (for I'll not answer above ground For any sage's creed or calculation)- A mode of proving that the earth turn'd round In a most natural whirl, called 'gravitation'; And this is the sole mortal who could grapple, Since Adam, with a fall, or with an apple.

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And hold up to the sun my little taper.

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Old man! 'Tis not difficult to die.

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May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And pay for poems--when they pay for coats.

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So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!

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Happiness was born a twin.

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Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.

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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?

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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.

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Fills The air around with beauty.

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Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.

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