The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

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A Serpent-Face

His face was like a snake's -- wrinkled and loose
And withered--

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Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

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Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

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Death In Life

My head is heavy, my limbs are weary,
And it is not life that makes me move.

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