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Why didst thou leave the trodden paths of men Too soon, and with weak hands though mighty heart...
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With plough and spade, and hoe and loom, Trace your grave, and build your tomb,...
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Yes, marriage is hateful, detestable. A kind of ineffable, sickening disgust seizes my mind when I think of this most despotic, most unrequite...
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While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin,...
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindoo, His best friends hear no more of him.
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Two bloodless wolves whose dry throats rattle, Two crows perched on the murrained cattle, Two vipers tangled into one.
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To that high Capital, where kingly Death Keeps his pale court in beauty and decay, He came.
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The whispering waves were half asleep, The clouds were gone to play, And on the bosom of the deep The smile of Heaven lay;
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The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them....
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Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep,—that death is slumber,...
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Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
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In honored poverty thy voice did weave Songs consecrate to truth and liberty;—...
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I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won
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Death is the veil which those who live call life: They sleep—and it is lifted
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But pale despair and cold tranquillity, Nature's vast frame, the web of human things,...
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And whether life had been before that sleep The Heaven which I imagine, or a Hell...
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All things are sold: the very light of Heaven Is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love,...
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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
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The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.
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It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.
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Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, -- a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field...
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It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. The plant must spring again from its seed, or it will bear no flower -- and this is the burthen of the curse of Babel.
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Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life... is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
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Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes what'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame, A mechanized automaton.
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