What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

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I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

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There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.

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The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!

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Life is too short for chess.

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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?

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They never fail who die in a great cause.

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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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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

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When people say, "I've told you fifty times," They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes," They make you dread that they'll recite them too; In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true, but then, no doubt, it equally as true is, a good deal may be bought for fifty Louis.

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