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Look twice before you leap.

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Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

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Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

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It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

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Ah wretched We, Poets of Earth! but Thou Wert Living the same Poet which thou'rt Now,...

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Oh take my Heart, and by that means you'll prove Within too stor'd enough of Love:...

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To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.

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God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

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Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

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After all, what sparks of poetry can be kicked out of a football ? We were a football.

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Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

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But, if He comes not, neither do thou go, Till Vesper chime. Belike thou then shalt know He hath been with thee all the time.

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

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I feel very lonely in Oxford. I seem to have no sympathy with the men around me.

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Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.

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As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.

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I must be free... free to do what I like, say what I like, write what I like, within the limits prescribed for me by my own sense of what is seemly and fitting.

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The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing.

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It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.

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He found it inconvenient to be poor.

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