“I only know we loved in vain; I only feel—farewell! farewell!”
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“What is the end of fame? 'Tis but to fill a certain portion of uncertain paper.”
“In secret we met; in silence I grieve, that thy heart could forget, thy spirit deceive.”
“He was a lover of the good old school, who still become more constant as they cool.”
“Here's a sigh to those who love me, and a smile to those who hate.”
“When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home, let him combat for that of his neighbours.”
“How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!”
“Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.”
“Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.”
“Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.”
“None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.”
“No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.”
“The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents.”
“It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.”
“At last he rose, and twitched his mantle blue: tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures new.”