Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

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Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

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Rome And Nature

Rome has fallen, ye see it lying
Heaped in undistinguished ruin:
Nature is alone undying.

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May The Limner

When May is painting with her colours gay
The landscape sketched by April her sweet twin...

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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

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