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The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
To begin, begin.
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.
What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.
Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.
Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
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