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> [When with care we have raised an imaginary treasure of happiness, we find at last that the materials of the structure are frail and perishing, and the foundation itself is laid in the sand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-rogers/when-with-care-we-have-raised-an-imaginary-treasure-of-happiness-we/)

[Samuel Rogers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-rogers/)

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## More by Samuel Rogers

> [It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-rogers/it-doesn-t-much-signify-whom-one-marries-for-one-is-sure-to-find-next/)

[Samuel Rogers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-rogers/)

> [Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are link'd by many a hidden chain; Awake but one, and lo, what myriads…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-rogers/lull-d-in-the-countless-chambers-of-the-brain-our-thoughts-are-link-d/)

[Samuel Rogers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-rogers/)

> [Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-rogers/go-you-may-call-it-madness-folly-you-shall-not-chase-my-gloom-away/)

[Samuel Rogers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-rogers/)

> [Women have the understanding of the heart, which is better than that of the head.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-rogers/women-have-the-understanding-of-the-heart-which-is-better-than-that/)

[Samuel Rogers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-rogers/)

> [I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this excess of joy? What has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-rogers/i-am-in-rome-oft-as-the-morning-ray-visits-these-eyes-waking-at-once/)

[Samuel Rogers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-rogers/)

> [Sweet memory, wafted by the gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail, To view the fairy haunts of long-lost…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-rogers/sweet-memory-wafted-by-the-gentle-gale-oft-up-the-stream-of-time-i/)

[Samuel Rogers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-rogers/)

> [When a new book is published, read an old one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-rogers/when-a-new-book-is-published-read-an-old-one/)

[Samuel Rogers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-rogers/)

> [The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-rogers/the-soul-of-music-slumbers-in-the-shell-till-waked-and-kindled-by-the/)

[Samuel Rogers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-rogers/)

> [Gentle to others, to himself severe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-rogers/gentle-to-others-to-himself-severe/)

[Samuel Rogers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-rogers/)

> [Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-rogers/sweet-memory-wafted-by-thy-gentle-gale-oft-up-the-stream-of-time-i/)

[Samuel Rogers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-rogers/)

> [Every day a little life, a blank to be inscribed with gentle thoughts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-rogers/every-day-a-little-life-a-blank-to-be-inscribed-with-gentle-thoughts/)

[Samuel Rogers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-rogers/)

> [To know her was to love her.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-rogers/to-know-her-was-to-love-her/)

[Samuel Rogers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-rogers/)

> [By many a temple half as old as Time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-rogers/by-many-a-temple-half-as-old-as-time/)

[Samuel Rogers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-rogers/)

> [Think nothing done while aught remains to do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-rogers/think-nothing-done-while-aught-remains-to-do/)

[Samuel Rogers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-rogers/)

> [Paris strikes the vulgar part of us infinitely the most, but to a thinking mind London is incomparably the most delightful subject for contemplation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-rogers/paris-strikes-the-vulgar-part-of-us-infinitely-the-most-but-to-a/)

[Samuel Rogers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-rogers/)

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