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All through the deep blue night The fountain sang alone; It sang to the drowsy heart of the satyr carved in stone.…
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Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten, Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold, Let it be forgotten…
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O beauty, are you not enough; why am I crying after love.
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Life is a frail moth flying Caught in the web of the years that pass.
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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
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Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin That Time cannot take Nor a thief purloin- O better than the minting Of…
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With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality.
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Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing, Never a bird, but the passionless…
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Oh to be free of myself, With nothing left to remember, To have my heart as bare As a tree in December;…
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It is my heart that makes my songs, not I.
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Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.
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Spend all you have for loveliness.
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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
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A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's…
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Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
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... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.
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I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.
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Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
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Jests that give pains are no jests.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
— Samuel Richardson
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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
— Charles Lamb
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Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were…
— John Flavel
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I'm from New York, I make kind of somewhat maybe lewd, at times - maybe some would say dirty - jokes. But…
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Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.
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