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Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.
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The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
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Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair Science frown'd not on…
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Sweet is the breath of vernal shower,/ The bee's collected treasure sweet,/ Sweet music's melting fall, but sweeter yet/ The still small…
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To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan,- The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet…
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Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.
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Thought would destroy their paradise.
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Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read…
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed,…
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How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy…
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Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
— Thomas Gray
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