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Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.

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Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.

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In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears

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Be hypocritical, be cautious, be not what you seem but always what you see.

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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

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My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.

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The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space.

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A quiet conscience makes one so serene.

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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.

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As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world? and tooled in a post-chaise? in a hackney coach? in a Gondola? against a wall? in a court carriage? in a vis a vis? on a table? and under it?

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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!

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Who then will explain the explanation?

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

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Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.

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But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on.

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But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play at cards? Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery, And what I write I cast upon the stream To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream.

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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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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

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