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Words of love are works of love.
William Rounseville Alger
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Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.
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God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.
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A blue eye is a true eye Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark sun! A black eye is the best one.
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I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.
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Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.
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Laws are the silent assessors of God.
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The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance.
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The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.
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