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lord of the worlds above how pleasant and how fair the dwellings of thy love
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paradise regained bk iv milton
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where venice sate in state throned on her hundred isles childe harold canto iv lord byron
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o rome my country city of the soul
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yonder cloud that rises upward always higher and onward drags a laboring breast
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j g whittier
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love is indestructible its holy flame forever burneth from heaven it came to heaven returneth
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doubt thou the stars are fire doubt that the sun doth move doubt truth to be a liar
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there are no tricks in plain and simple faith sc shakespeare
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with good and gentle-humored hearts i choose to chat where'er i come whate'er the subject be that starts
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its right foredone its guardians dead its priestesses bereft of dread waking the veriest urchin's scorning
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and now our modern yankee sees nor omens spells nor mysteries and naught above below around
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so much the better juan said for them don juan lord byron
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false wizard avaunt i have marshalled my clan their swords are a thousand their bosoms are one
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he that kills himself to avoid misery fears it and at the best shows but a bastard valor
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poets lose half the praise they should have got could it be known what they discreetly blot upon roscommon's translation of horace's de arte poetica
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blest power of sunshine genial day what balm what life is in thy ray
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othello act v sc shakespeare
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macbeth act iii sc shakespeare
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saul xviii r browning
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all is not lost the unconquerable will and study of revenge immortal hate and courage never to submit or yield
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j r lowell
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of no distemper of no blast he died but fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long even wondered at because he dropt no sooner
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christ the lord is risen to-day c wesley
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easter g herbert
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a blue eye is a true eye mysterious is a dark one which flashes like a spark-sun
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[footnote a: cromwell once when his troops were about crossing a river to attack the enemy concluded an address with these words: put your trust in god but mind to keep your powder dry
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ah who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where fame's proud temple shines afar
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ye rigid ploughmen bear in mind your labor is for future hours
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advance spare not nor look behind
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man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and a perfect man commands all light all influence all fate
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roses have thorns and silver fountains mud clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun and loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud
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all men make faults sonnet xxxv shakespeare
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lady macbeth letting i dare not wait upon i would like the poor cat i' the adage
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amoretti sonnet xxvi e spenser
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ring-ting i wish i were a primrose a bright yellow primrose blowing in the spring
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whose modest form so delicately fine was nursed in whirling storms and cradled in the winds
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the winter's tale act iv sc shakespeare
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come for arbutus my dear my dear the pink waxen blossoms are waking i hear we'll gather an armful of fragrant wild cheer
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forgotten no we never do forget we let the years go wash them clean with tears
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the more we know the better we forgive who'er feels deeply feels for all who live corinne
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are there not dear michal two points in the adventure of the diver one when a beggar he prepares to plunge
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no freedom has a thousand charms to show that slaves howe'er contented never know
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hamlet act i sc shakespeare
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macbeth thou canst not say i did it never shake thy gory locks at me
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this is the very painting of your fear this is the air-drawn dagger which you said led you to duncan
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avaunt and quit my sight let the earth hide thee
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thy bones are marrowless thy blood is cold thou hast no speculation in those eyes which thou dost glare with
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inspiring god who boundless spirit all and unremitting energy pervades
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a deity believed is joy begun a deity adored is joy advanced a deity beloved is joy matured
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my theme my inspiration and my crown
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now stir the fire and close the shutters fast let fall the curtains wheel the sofa round and while the bubbling and loud hissing urn
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hope of all ills that men endure the only cheap and universal cure
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hudibras s butler
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an evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek a goodly apple rotten at the heart
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the castle of indolence canto i j thomson
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of its own beauty is the mind diseased and fevers into false creation: where where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized
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horatio oh where my lord
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oh that the memories which survive us here were half so lovely as these wings of thine
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electric telegraphs printing gas tobacco balloons and steam are little events that have come to pass
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o beware my lord of jealousy it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on
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or captain jewels in the carcanet sonnet iii shakespeare
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'tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat to peep at such a world to see the stir of the great babel and not feel the crowd
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how many a rustic milton has passed by stifling the speechless longings of his heart in unremitting drudgery and care
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macduff i know this is a joyful trouble to you but yet 'tis one
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between two hawks which flies the higher pitch between two dogs which hath the deeper mouth between two horses which doth bear him best
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explained the matter and would win the cause dame justice weighing long the doubtful right takes opens swallows it before their sight
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biron what is the end of study let me know
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a man's ingress into the world is naked and bare his progress through the world is trouble and care and lastly his egress out of the world is nobody knows where
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it is not virtue wisdom valor wit strength comeliness of shape or amplest merit that woman's love can win or long inherit
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two souls with but a single thought two hearts that beat as one ingomar the barbarian act ii
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von m bellinghausen lovell's trans
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he was a lover of the good old school who still become more constant as they cool beppo canto xxxiv lord byron
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thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear childe harold canto iv lord byron
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epitaph on gay a pope
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and pure religion breathing household laws written in london september w wordsworth
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true love is but a humble low-born thing and hath its food served up in earthen ware it is a thing to walk with hand in hand
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my dear i was the first who came away don juan canto i lord byron
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and mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair english bards and scotch reviewers lord byron
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this house is to be let for life or years her rent is sorrow and her income tears cupid 't has long stood void her bills make known
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with us ther was a doctour of phisik in al this world ne was ther non him lyk to speke of phisik and of surgerye
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much ado about nothing act iv sc shakespeare
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while memory holds a seat in this distracted globe remember thee
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a merrier man within the limit of becoming mirth i never spent an hour's talk withal
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scatter in rich exuberance the seed whose fruit is living bread and all your need will god supply his harvest ye shall share
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these violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die like fire and powder which as they kiss consume
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see yonder fire it is the moon slow rising o'er the eastern hill
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mother of light how fairly dost thou go over those hoary crests divinely led
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manfred act iii sc lord byron
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s c woolsey
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at last the golden orientall gate of greatest heaven gan to open fayre and phoebus fresh as brydegrome to his mate
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who ran to help me when i fell and would some pretty story tell or kiss the place to make it well
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my mother my mother jane taylor
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two voices are there one is of the sea one of the mountains each a mighty voice thought of a briton on the subjugation of switzerland
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eternity mourns that 'tis an ill cure for life's worst ills to have no time to feel them
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mordre wol out that se we day by day the nonnes preestes tale chaucer
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the symphony s lanter
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sure something holy lodges in that breast and with these raptures moves the vocal air to testify his hidden residence
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o wild and wondrous midnight there is a might in thee almost like spirit be
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confusion heard his voice and wild uproar stood ruled stood vast infinitude confined till at his second bidding darkness fled
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