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Tis well to be merry and wise,
'Tis well to be honest and true;
It is best to be off with the old love,
Before you are on with the new.

They waste life in what are called good resolutions-partial efforts at reformation, feebly commenced, heartlessly conducted, and hopelessly concluded.

It is actually possible to become amateurs in suffering.

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

Many a month of gloomy unconsciousness rolled over me, without date or notice. One thousand waves may welter over a sunk wreck, and be felt as one.

Singular sentiment of pride, that can erect its trophies amid the grave.

Beauty hath no lustre save when it gleameth through the crystal web that purity's fine fingers weave for it.

The soul shares not the body's test.

A malady
Preys on my heart that med'cine cannot reach.

There is no error more absurd, and yet more rooted in the heart of man, than the belief that his sufferings will promote his spiritual safety.

It is better to hear the thunder than to watch the cloud.

O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound,
"Your lord will soon return," no phrase brings.