Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
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Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined A sickly flame, which, if not fed, expires, And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.
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Poetry, the eldest sister of all arts, and parent of most.
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I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
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She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises.
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You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
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