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 | "A garden was the primitive prison, till man, with Promethean
felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market." | |
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Found in the topic Laugh.
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| "Credulity is the man"s weakness, but the child"s strength." | |
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Found in the topic Belief.
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| "Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing
troubles me less, as I never think about them." | |
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Found in the topic Space.
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| "Martin, if dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!" | |
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Found in the topic Cards.
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| "A Persian"s heaven is eas"ly made: "T is but black eyes and
lemonade." | |
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Found in the topic Heaven.
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| "But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood,
hugs it to the last." | |
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Found in the topic Faith.
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| "And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the
first to be touch"d by the thorns." | |
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Found in the topic Flower.
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| "Beholding heaven, and feeling hell." | |
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Found in the topic Remember.
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| "A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship,
steady." | |
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Found in the topic Marriage.
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| "If I speak to thee in friendship"s name, Thou think"st I speak too
coldly; If I mention love"s devoted flame, Thou say"st I speak too
boldly." | |
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Found in the topic Courtship.
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| "We see the world not as it is, but as we are." | |
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Found in the topic Action.
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| "I know not, I ask not, if guilt "s in that heart, I but know that I
love thee whatever thou art." | |
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Found in the topic Know.
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| "Lawyers, I suppose, were children once." | |
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Found in the topic Lawyers.
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| "Humility, that low, sweet root From which all heavenly virtues
shoot." | |
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Found in the topic Humanitarian.
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| "For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to
speak profanely) to be present with the Lord." | |
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Found in the topic Absent.
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| "I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of
childhood, in my joyful school-days. All, all are gone, the old familiar
faces." | |
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Found in the topic Children.
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| "But there "s nothing half so sweet in life As love"s young
dream." | |
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Found in the topic Love.
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| "For thy sake, Tobacco, I Would do any thing but die." | |
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Found in the topic Smoking.
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| "My only books Were woman"s looks,? And folly "s all they "ve taught
me." | |
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Found in the topic Beauty.
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