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She fear'd no danger, for she knew no sin.
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What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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And kind as kings upon their coronation day.
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And, like another Helen, fir'd another Troy.
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Theirs was the giant race, before the flood.
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Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
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May, tho' our atoms should resolve by chance.
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His hair just grizzled,
As in a green old age.
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The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Are scatter'd from their heap, and puff'd away.
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A knockdown argument: 'tis but a word and a blow.
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Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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The true Amphitryon is the Amphitryon where we dine.
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Your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
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A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.
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Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all other pleasures are.
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Wit will shine
Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.
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Of ancient race by birth, but nobler yet
In his own worth.
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The sword within the scabbard keep,
And let mankind agree.
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As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes.
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Your Cleopatra; Dolabella's Cleopatra; every man's Cleopatra.
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My whole life Has been a golden dream of love and friendship.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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Born:
August 9, 1631
Died:
May 1, 1700
(aged 68)
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