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Even good men like to make the public stare.
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Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared.
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A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded,
A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.
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Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.
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O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.
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Be hypocritical, be cautious, be not what you seem but always what you see.
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Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
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Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean, When both the teacher and the taught are young, As was the case, at least, where I have been; They smile so when one's right; and when one's wrong They smile still more.
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When Newton saw an apple fall, he found In that slight startle from his contemplation- 'Tis said (for I'll not answer above ground For any sage's creed or calculation)- A mode of proving that the earth turn'd round In a most natural whirl, called 'gravitation'; And this is the sole mortal who could grapple, Since Adam, with a fall, or with an apple.
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Twas twilight, and the sunless day went down Over the waste of waters; like a veil, Which, if withdrawn, would but disclose the frown Of one whose hate is mask'd but to assail.
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But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,-- Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.
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The Devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.
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Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.
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Prose poets like blank-verse, I'm fond of rhyme,
Good workmen never quarrel with their tools.
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'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article.
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I've stood upon Achilles' tomb,
And heard Troy doubted; time will doubt of Rome.
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But time strips our illusions of their hue,
And one by one in turn, some grand mistake
Casts off its bright skin yearly, like a snake.
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But Shakespeare also says, 'tis very silly
'To gild refined gold, or paint the lily.'
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Why don't they knead two virtuous souls for life
Into that moral centaur, man and wife?
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Man's love is of man's life a thing apart,
'Tis woman's whole existence.
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Now what I love in women is, they won't Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it. So well, the very truth seems falsehood to it.
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There's nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms
As rum and true religion.
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Just as old age is creeping on space,
And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day,
They kindly leave us, though not quite alone,
But in good company—the gout or stone.
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Dreading that climax of all human ills,
The inflammation of his weekly bills.
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'Let there be light!' said God, and there was light!'
'Let there be blood!' says man, and there's a sea!
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What men call gallantry, and gods adultery,
Is much more common where the climate's sultry.
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Man is a carnivorous production,
And must have meals, at least one meal a day;
He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction,
But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey.
Although his anatomical construction
Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way,
Your laboring people think beyond all question,
Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.
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"Gentlemen farmers" — a race worn out quite.
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The English winter—ending in July,
To recommence in August.
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This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.
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Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
Wyndham Lewis
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Born:
January 22, 1788
Died:
April 19, 1824
(aged 36)
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