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When we're worn,
Hacked hewn with constant service, thrown aside
To rust in peace, or rot in hospitals.
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For love is but discovery:
When that is made, the pleasure's done.
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Of the king's creation you may be; but he who makes a count ne'er made a man.
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Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die.
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When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through the veil that hides the secret brings it to the face
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There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause.
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Pity's akin to love; and every thought
Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.
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The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Thomas Southerne
Born:
1660
Died:
May 26, 1746
(aged 86)
Bio:
Thomas Southerne was an Irish dramatist.
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