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Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!


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And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.

And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.




For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.



Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.



Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.



A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.

A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.



Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.



I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.



Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.

Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.



As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.

As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.





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I think even though things are changing a bit, we still kind of tend to grow up with girls being like, 'Don't be too loud, don't be too rude, don't be too naughty,' or whatever, to act a certain way.



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Our body is simply a social structure made of many souls.



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Every time I end a book, I look down at myself.



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The Droid I had actually seemed to have free will, which I thought was interesting.



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I would suggest the taxation of all property equally whether church or corporation.




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