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To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.

Remember Today Feel Yesterday
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Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.
Everything Interest Me Nothing
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The chill of what I won't feel gnaws at my present heart.

Chill Feel Gnaws Present
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Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity.

Morning Life Stupidity
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From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my thoughts and not I

Much Self-destroyed Self-thinking Thoughts
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To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves.

Love Cowardice Betrayal Ourselves
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I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.

Life Little I Denied
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And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

Deadly Rather Death Self
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The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

Death Desired Hurts Lover
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It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Child Father Knows Own
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The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
Heaven One Love Makes
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The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

Concord Fit Hath Himself
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Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

Being Every Turns Wild
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Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

Eat Fishes Little Great
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Battalions Come Single Sorrows
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Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

Dangerous Doth Loving Most
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

Kindness Looks Love Shall
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Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
Covetousness Desire Having Sin
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Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

Law Make Wills They
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Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

After Desert Every Man
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Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Badge Mercy Sweet True
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The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

Company Himself Most Out
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

Lender Borrower Neither Nor
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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

After Bones Evil Good
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Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

Desire Many Years Outlive
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I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

Answer Bound Please Thee
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My pride fell with my fortunes.

Fell Fortunes Pride
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I will praise any man that will praise me.

Any Man Praise Will
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If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

Now Prepare Shed Tears
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If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

Grain Grow Look Seeds
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

Hot Iron Make Strike
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Education Filling Fire Lighting
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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

Begins Ends Friends Glory
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Design Pride Dead Repair
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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Behind Black Broken Feet
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

Echo Future History Past
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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Armies Come Idea Invasion
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Age Fifty Forty Old
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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Adorable Age Dawn Grace
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Closes Door Opens Prison
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Drives Face Human Sun
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

Almost Draw Even Extinguish
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

God He Keep Laws
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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
Ale Drink Lad Shoulder
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Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

Does God Justify Man
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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

Air American Conceal Cunning
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That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

Again Cannot Come Content
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The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

Ale Angry Bear Drink
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I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.

Asylum Cambridge Every Find
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
Average Average Man Conservative Critic
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