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I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark parti...more

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The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.

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I love the silent hour of night,For blissful dreams may then arise,Revealing to my charmed sightWhat may not bless my waking eyes.

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Oh, Youth may listen patiently,While sad Experience tells her tale,But Doubt sits smiling in his eye,For ardent Hope will still prevail!He hears how f...more

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My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.