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. . . make the abhorrent eye
Roll back and close.
Topic: Abhorrence
Source: Curse of Kehama (VIII, 9)
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Affliction is not sent in vain, young man,
From that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
Topic: Affliction
Source: Madoc in Wales (III, l. 176)
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Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
Topic: Ambition
Source: None
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The solitary Bee
Whose buzzing was the only sound of life,
Flew there on restless wing,
Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.
Topic: Bees
Source: Thalaba (bk. VI, st. 13)
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If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
Topic: Brevity
Source: None
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Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.
Topic: Charity
Source: Soldier's Wife
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All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
Topic: Deceit
Source: None
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All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
Topic: Deception
Source: None
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The Satanic school.
Topic: Devil
Source: Vision of Judgment (original preface, III)
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Three things a wise man will not trust,
The wind, the sunshine of an April day,
And woman's plighted faith.
Topic: Distrust
Source: Madoc in Azthan (pt. XXIII, l. 51)
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Now, motionless and dark, eluded search
Self-shrouded: and anon, starring the sky,
Rose like a shower of fire.
Topic: Fireflies
Source: Madoc (pt. II)
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And as, when all the summer trees are seen
So bright and green,
The Holly leaves a sober hue display
Less bright than they,
But when the bare and wintry woods we see,
What then so cheerful as the Holly-tree?
Topic: Holly
Source: The Holly-Tree
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O Reader! hast thou ever stood to see
The Holly-tree?
The eye that contemplates it well perceives
Its glossy leaves
Ordered by an Intelligence so wise
As might confound the Atheist's sophistries.
Topic: Holly
Source: The Holly-Tree (st. 1)
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The march of intellect.
Topic: Intellect
Source: Sir Thos. More; or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society (vol. II, p. 361)
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Midnight, and yet no eye
Through all the Imperial City closed in sleep.
Topic: Midnight
Source: Curse of Kehama (pt. I, 1)
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Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky
Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray,
Each in the south melting.
Topic: Rainbows
Source: Sonnets--The Evening Rainbow
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She comes majestic with her swelling sails,
The gallant Ship: along her watery way,
Homeward she drives before the favouring gales;
Now flirting at their length the streamers play,
And now they ripple with the ruffling breeze.
Topic: Ships
Source: Sonnet XIX
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While Washington hath left
His awful memory,
A light for after times.
Topic: Washington, George
Source: Ode written during the War with America
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And so never ending,
But always descending.
Topic: Water
Source: The Cataract of Lodore
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"How does the Water
Come down at Lodore?"
Topic: Water
Source: The Cataract of Lodore
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It is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
Topic: Word
Source: None
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