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Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.

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Why hast thou lost the fresh blood in thy cheeks, And given my treasures and my rights of thee...

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You yourself Are much condemned to have an itching palm, To sell and mart your offices for gold To undeservers.

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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

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Each new morn New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows Strike heaven on the face.

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The soul of this man is in his clothes.

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For 'Tis the sport to have the engineer hoisted with his own petard.

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The earth has music for those who listen.

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O, call back yesterday, bid time return.

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O, if you raise this house against this house It will the woefullest division prove That ever fell upon this cursed earth.

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Ten masts make not the altitude Which thou hast perpendicularly fell. Thy life's a miracle.

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For through the painter must you see his skill, To find where your true image pictured lies,...

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For her own person, It beggared all description: she did lie...

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You ever gentle gods, take my breath from me; Let not my worser spirit tempt me again To die before you please!

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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

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The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

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For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return!

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

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