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To so perverse a sex all grace is vain.
Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease.
The blushing beauties of a modest maid.
For all have not the gift of martyrdom.
Let cheerfulness on happy fortune wait.
What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes
Fair is the marigold, for pottage meet.
To shoot at crows is powder flung away.
Green calm below, blue quietness above.
A quote about drinking is a joy forever
Comparisons do ofttime great grievance.
Love is a flame to set the will on fire
Where no hope is left, is left no fear.
Solitude is sometimes the best society.
This is servitude, To serve the unwise.
Where more is meant than meets the ear.
Ink is the blood of the printing-press.
The never-ending flight Of future days.
With thee conversing I forget all time.
The gay motes that people the sunbeams.
Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child!
And feel that I am happier than I know.
Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.
Methought I saw my late espoused saint.
'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear.
All men would be cowards if they could.
Dead we become the lumber of the world.
Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.
Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.
In truth, men speak too much of danger.
I don't have principles. I have nerves.
Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.
We are the ones we've been waiting for.
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
No god is absent where prudence dwells.
What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?
Honesty's praised, then left to freeze.
It takes a long time to publish a book.
Law and order embrace on hate's border.
To know the pain of too much tenderness
Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.
You have your ideology and I have mine.
Even in warmest glow how cold my shadow
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair
Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion.
Affection exaggerates its own offenses.
Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.
The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.
The laws of decency enforce themselves.