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I once knew a man out of courtesy help a lame dog over a stile, and he for requital bit his fingers.
William Chillingworth
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The starres, bright cent'nels of the skies.
William Habington
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I saw the spires of Oxford
As I was passing by,
The grey spires of Oxford
Against a pearl-grey sky;
My heart was with the Oxford men
Who went abroad to die.
Winifred Mary Letts
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The name is history.
The thick Miljacka flows
Under its bridges through a canyon's breadth
Fretted with minarets and plump with domes,
Cupped in its mountains, caught on a drawn breath.
Anthony Thwaite
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American diplomacy. It's like watching somebody trying to do joinery with a chainsaw.
James Hamilton-Paterson
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Under this stone, Reader, survey
Dead Sir John Vanbrugh's house of clay.
Lie heavy on him, Earth! for he
Laid many heavy loads on thee!
Abel Evans
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A fine morning's killing, ay! All their necks wrung - all dead birds! Once they could fly - fly and swim! Fly and swim! All dead now - and sold cheap in the open market!
Marie Corelli
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Because I longed to comprehend the infinite I drew a line between the known and unknown.
Elizabeth Bartlett
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LUCIFER: Only the chemistry of love can make Two atoms one.
Alfred Austin
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The works of nature will bear a thousand views and reviews: the more frequently and narrowly we look into them, the more occasion we shall have to admire their beauty.
Francis Atterbury
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In the mind all things are written in pictures - there is no alphabetical combination of letters and words; all things are pictures and symbols.
Richard Jefferies
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It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life!
Emily Eden
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We are no more content to plod along the beaten paths - and so marriage must go the way of God.
Amy Levy
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This is the divine moment when we can hold the fairest blossom of spring in one hand and the sweetest flowers of early summer in the other.
Patience Strong
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There are some secrets which scarcely admit of being disclosed even to ourselves.
Jane West
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God send us power to make decision
With muscular, clean, fierce precision.
In life and song...
Anna Wickham
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Fear, guilt, despair, and moon-struck phrensy rush
On voluntary death: the wise and brave,
When the fierce storms of fortune round 'em roar,
Combat the billows with redoubled force:
Then, if they perish ere the port is gain'd,
They sink with decent pride; and from the deep
Honour retrieves them, bright as rising stars.
Elijah Fenton
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It's easy to watch someone else's life crash and burn, harder to watch your own accident up close.
Patrick Jones
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I liked having some time to myself. Our family was such a close one, you could get smothered. Of course, we didn't always agree with one another. Sometimes I quarreled with my brother and sisters, but I couldn't remember hating anyone for more than five minutes.
Gloria Whelan
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But I didn't dare. That has always been my trouble. I've never dared enough.
Michael Morpurgo
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Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes, come on, let us sway together, under the trees, and to hell with thunder.
Edwin Morgan (poet)
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Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.
E. V. Knox
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It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.
Eliza Acton
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Her hearing was keener than his, and she heard silences he was unaware of.
D. M. Thomas
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Some day your head won't find my lap so easily. Trust is a habit you'll soon break.
Imtiaz Dharker
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