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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

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Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

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Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.

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Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.

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Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

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Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

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Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

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There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

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'Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.

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Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.

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The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.

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Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion.

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By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.

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It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

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The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

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Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.

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Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

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