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Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned...

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The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground,...

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Death is the end of life; ah, why Should life all labor be?

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My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.

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Ah God! that it were possible For one short hour to see...

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Cleave never to the sunnier side of doubt.

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Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams?...

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I wage not any feud with Death For changes wrought on form and face;...

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the clock Beats out the little lives of men.

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Nor blame I Death, because he bare The use of virtue out of earth;...

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Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.

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Self-reverence, self knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.

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Each of us has a natural right -- from God to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. These are the three basic requirements of life, and the preservation of any one of them is completely dependent upon the preservation of the other two. For what are our faculties but the extension of our individuality? And what is property but an extension of our faculties?

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The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.

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Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.

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No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

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There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.

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O earth, what changes hast thou seen!

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O, why should Love, like men in drinking-songs, Spice his fair banquet with the dust of death?

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Though we are not now at that strength which in better days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; one equal temper of heroic hearts made weak by time and fate but not in will; To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield

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