There's but a twinkling of a star Between a man of peace and war.
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God is Love, I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is.Samuel Butler
Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel 's of by th' blow Some kick'd until they can feel whether A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather.
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An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
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'Cause grace and virtue are within Prohibited degrees of kin And therefore no true saint allows They shall be suffer'd to espouse.
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