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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.
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.
This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.
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.
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?
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end.
Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.
The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.
I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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 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 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
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.
Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse -- borne away with every breath!
Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years.
As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited.
Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.
Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs.
Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!
A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.