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Fills The air around with beauty.
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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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Land of lost gods and godlike men.
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Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.
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Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!
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'Twas strange that one so young should thus concern His brain about the action of the sky; If you think 'twas philosophy that this did, I can't help thinking puberty assisted.
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Sleep hath its own world, and the wide realm of wild reality.
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O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
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The sky is changed,-and such a change! O night And storm and darkness! ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder.
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Fill high the cup with Samian wine!
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Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.
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I am ashes where once I was fire.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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A quiet conscience makes one so serene.