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John Godfrey Saxe Quotes: Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged.
         

Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged.


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Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt.



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Long pains are light ones, Cruel ones are brief!



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The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.



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God bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.



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I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,-- Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed, Knows the high art of what and how to read.





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