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Words are things, and a small drop if ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
... the art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest, and the stupidest of pretended sports.
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth.
Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.
I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.
Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.
There is something Pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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