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The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men…
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is, that they sing, and that they love. While I listen to…
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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
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Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.
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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
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Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
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His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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The chain that's fixed to the throne of Jove, On which the fabric of our world depends, One link dissolved, the whole…
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The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses, nor the zealous…
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Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is, that they sing, and that they love. While I listen to…
— Edmund Waller
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Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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. . . More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice Rise like a fountain…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole, Yet 'tis Thy voice, my God,…
— Walter Scott
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Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
— William Shakespeare
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Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
— William Shakespeare
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If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it. I will keep still and wait like…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred,…
— Saint Ambrose
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