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Oh! she was good as she was fair.
None-none on earth above her!
As pure in thought as angels are,
To know her was to love her.

Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.

To vanish in the chinks that Time has made.

Feeling hearts
touch them but lightly
pour
A thousand melodies unheard before.

To know her was to love her.

Vast and deep the mountain shadows grew.

I lived to write, and wrote to live.

And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy.

That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,- That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.

Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.

Think nothing done while aught remains to do.

A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,
skip.

Man to the last is but a froward child;
So eager for the future, come what may,
And to the present so insensible.

Women have the understanding of the heart, which is better than that of the head.

Every day a little life, a blank to be inscribed with gentle thoughts.

Long on the wave reflected lustres of play.

A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing.

Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay.

The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.

Those that he loved so long and sees no more, Loved and still loves,-not dead, but gone before,- He gathers round him.

Paris strikes the vulgar part of us infinitely the most, but to a thinking mind London is incomparably the most delightful subject for contemplation.

Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.

I came to the place of my birth and cried: "The friends of my youth, where are they?"
and an echo answered, "Where are they?

When a new book is published, read an old one.

Mine be a cot beside the hill;
A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear;
A willowy brook, that turns a mill,
With many a fall shall linger near.

Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men.

Gentle to others, to himself severe.

By many a temple half as old as Time.