A drop of ink may make a million think.

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Life is too short for chess.

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Happiness was born a twin.

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'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.

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Land of lost gods and godlike men.

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This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.

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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.

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What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

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There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell. But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell!

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There is no instinct like that of the heart.

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