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November's night is dark and drear,The dullest month of all the year.
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To know yourself less beloved than you love, is a dreadful feeling
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We read of the gales that bear from the shores of Ceylon the breathings of the cinnamon groves.
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The Little Boy's Bed-Time See under Translations
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Thrice venomed is the wound when 'tis Love's handInflicts the blow.
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A light compliment was never yet breathed by love.
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A man above thirty cannot enter into the wild visions of an enthusiastic girl.
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Words are powerless to tell. --Painter, try thy glorious art !
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Beauty should be around the beautiful.
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The moon is darkened in the skyAs if grief 's shade were passing by;
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I will look on the stars and look on thee,and read the page of thy destiny.
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A luxury of deep repose ! the heartMust surely beat in quiet here.
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God ! that this Earth should be so beautiful,And yet so wretched !
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Oh, the heartKnows not the power of music till it loves !
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Oh ! never should a woman's words be moreThan sighs which have found utterance.
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Happiness ! pleasure I should rather say,Happiness never made on earth a stay --
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His heart is like a maggot-eaten nut:There's nothing in it ; but 'tis closely shut.
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They know there must be May within the year, Else would they never dream that May was here.
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Literary taste is often confounded with literary talent by others, quite as much as by ourselves.
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But wit cuts its bright way through the glass-door of public favour;
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We deny that poetry is fiction; its merit and its power lie alike in its truth:
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She had always thought she would be like her father, and fancied a tall, dark, and handsome face.
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A London day requires to be well aired before it is ventured into.
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We enjoy no pleasure so much as we do tormenting ourselves.
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who cares for a general compliment more than a general lover.
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Fame to a woman is indeed but a royal mourning in purple for happiness.
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Expectation is in itself a very pretty sort of reality.
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They say suppers are very unwholesome, our grandfathers and grandmothers never discovered it ...
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unshared mirth only damps the spirits of a small circle ...
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A will of his own in a young man without a shilling is a superfluity,
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that worst bump developed that can adorn the head of a bore--viz., long-story-tellativeness.
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Time is the great leveller, but he is also the sanctifier and the beautifier.
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Now a nation's character is in its literature.
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Why, the very element of poetry is faith--faith in the beautiful, the divine, and the true.
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By turns the woman and the queen,And each as the other had never been.
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They named him -- ah ! yetDo I start at that name ;
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We might have been !-- these are but common words,And yet they make the sum of life's bewailing;
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How much of the full heart must beA seal'd book at whose contents we tremble ?
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Like a human thought in questOf a future hour.
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No one can say farewell with indifference.
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The voyage appeared short, for I had nothing to anticipate.
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But youth is as a flowing stream, on whose current the shadow may rest but not remain.
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Hope deferred is sickness to the heart -- and she was now suffering that sickness, at its worst.
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The world is as the sea, in whose salt waves,Like streams, we lose the freshness of our youth.
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