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Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but…
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words…
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Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the…
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A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose…
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Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the…
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Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which…
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No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in…
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Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.
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The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed.…
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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God speaks once, yea twice, yet Man perceiveth it not, in a Dream, in a Vision of the night, when deep Sleep…
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The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong.
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Because of Diamond, I have had to begin much of the work afresh. I will not, however, rid myself of her, nor…
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In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With…
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Are all knights so gentle? (Taryn) I know not, Taryn, since I don’t make it my habit to lie abed with other…
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