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Oh for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts.

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Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.

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Soft closer of our eyes! Low murmur of tender lullabies!

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Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme, To take into the ...more

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Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

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You are always new. THe last of your kisses was ever the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest. When you pass'd m...more

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Darkling I listen; and, for many a timeI have been half in love with easeful Death,Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme,To take into the air my...more

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I have clung To nothing, lov’d a nothing, nothing seen Or felt but a great dream!

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If I am destined to be happy with you here—how short is the longest Life—I wish to believe in immortality—I wish to live with you for ever.

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

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The world is too brutal for me—I am glad there is such a thing as the grave—I am sure I shall never have any rest till I get there.

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To Sleep"O soft embalmer of the still midnight, Shutting, with careful fingers and benign,Our gloom-pleas'd eyes, embower'd from the light, Enshaded i...more

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Darkling I listen; and, for many a timeI have been half in love with easeful Death...