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Grant me the power of saying thingsToo simple and too sweet for words!
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The moods of love are like the wind,And none know whence or why they rise.
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Bright looks reply, approving soBeauty's elixir vitae, praise.
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The beauty in her lover's eyesWas admiration of her own.
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A woman is a foreign land.
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She is both heaven and the way.
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How light the touches are that kissThe music from the chords of life!
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Life is not life at all without delight.
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To have noughtIs to have all things without care or thought!
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None thrives for long upon the happiest dream.
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The flower of olden sanctities.
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The midge's wing beats to and froA thousand times ere one can utter "O!"
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All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence.
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Science is a line, art a superficies, and life, or the knowledge of God, a solid.
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It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.
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The ardour chills us which we do not share.
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One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.
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Pride does much and ill, Love does little and well.
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Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.
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God is the only reality, and we are real only so far as we are in His order, and He is in us.
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Nothingness is capacity, and night the opportunity of light.
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The dull and heavy hate of fools.
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The cloud that is light to Israel is darkness to Egypt.
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Nothing remains with man unless it is insinuated with some delight.
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The enthusiasm for goodness which shows that it is not the habit of the mind.
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Enough's a surfeit to the soul.
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Life's warp of Heaven and woof of Hell.
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Modern Philosophers, that wisely keep to sandy shallows, like shrimps, for fear of bigger fish.
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The proper study of mankind is woman.
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