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Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

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The gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.

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It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.

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To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.

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Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

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There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

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The soul's joy lies in doing.

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All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

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Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.

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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

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Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.

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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

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Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

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Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.

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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

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How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.

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