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There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow.
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All our pride is but a jest. None are worst and none are best. Grief and hope and joy and fear Play…
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Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o'erflow with wine; Let well-tuned words amaze With harmony divine....
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Never love unless you can bear with all the faults of man!
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Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.
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Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.
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Beauty is not beauty without love.
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From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.
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Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o’erflow with wine... The summer hath his joys, And winter his delights; Though love and…
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My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love, And though the sager sort our deeds reprove, Let us not weigh them. Heaven's…
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Fain would I wed a fair young man that night and day could please me, When my mind or body grieved that…
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Yet I would not die a maid, because I had a mother, As I was by one brought forth, I would bring…
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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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…
— Robert H. Jackson
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Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
— Samuel Johnson
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... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.
— William Cowper
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I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.
— Marie de France
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Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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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…
— Sarah Michelle Gellar
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Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.
— Robert Lloyd
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