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Go let thy less than woman's hand Assume the distaff not the brand.
No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry.
A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.
So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!
Nothing so difficult as a beginning In poesy, unless perhaps the end.
Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave.
If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
Grief is fantastical, and loves the dead, And the apparel of the grave.
Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
Tis said that persons living on annuities Are longer lived than others.
Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile.
Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.
It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.
The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.
I die but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed.
When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.
Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.
This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.
And those who saw, it did surprise, Such drops could fall from human eyes.
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense.
Be hypocritical, be cautious, be not what you seem but always what you see.
Are not the mountains, waves, and skies as much a part of me, as I of them?
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end.
All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
Whatsoever thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth.
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.
I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.
I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.
He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)
Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.
He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister