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... mind profits by the wreck of every passion , and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone . • Bulwer's " Maltravers . " The fresh and buoyant sense of being That bounds in youth's yet careless breast , Itself a ...
... mind profits by the wreck of every passion , and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone . • Bulwer's " Maltravers . " The fresh and buoyant sense of being That bounds in youth's yet careless breast , Itself a ...
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... mind , To breathe the enlivening spirit , and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast . Slow pass our days in childhood ; Every day seems a century . I would not waste my spring of youth In idle dalliance : I would plant rich ...
... mind , To breathe the enlivening spirit , and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast . Slow pass our days in childhood ; Every day seems a century . I would not waste my spring of youth In idle dalliance : I would plant rich ...
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... mind , Addison . In the warm , glowing colors Fancy spreads On objects not yet known , when all is new And all is lovely ! Hannah More . When I was young ! ah , woeful when ! Ah , for the change ' twixt now and then ! Coleridge . Youth ...
... mind , Addison . In the warm , glowing colors Fancy spreads On objects not yet known , when all is new And all is lovely ! Hannah More . When I was young ! ah , woeful when ! Ah , for the change ' twixt now and then ! Coleridge . Youth ...
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... mind In duty firm , composed , resigned . She looks as clear As morning roses , newly wet with dew . Steele . Scott . Shakspeare . Loveliness needs not the foreign aid of ornament , But is when unadorned , adorned the most . Shakspeare ...
... mind In duty firm , composed , resigned . She looks as clear As morning roses , newly wet with dew . Steele . Scott . Shakspeare . Loveliness needs not the foreign aid of ornament , But is when unadorned , adorned the most . Shakspeare ...
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... mind possess , As Beauty's lovely bait , that doth procure Great warriors oft their rigor to repress , And mighty hands forget their manliness , Drawn with the power of a heart - robbing eye , And wrapt in fetters of a golden tress ...
... mind possess , As Beauty's lovely bait , that doth procure Great warriors oft their rigor to repress , And mighty hands forget their manliness , Drawn with the power of a heart - robbing eye , And wrapt in fetters of a golden tress ...
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Addison affection Bailey Bayard Taylor beauty blush breast breath bright Bulwer Burns Byron Campbell charms cheek Chesterfield Cicero Coleridge Colton Cowper dark death doth Dryden earth enemy eyes face fate faults fear feel Ferrold flower folly fool fortune friendship genius give glow Goethe Goldsmith grace Greville grief grow happiness hath Hazlitt heart heaven hope human husband Joanna Baillie Johnson kiss La Bruyère La Rochefoucauld Lavater life's light lips live Longfellow look love's lover Madame de Staël maiden man's marriage married Milton mind Miss Landon Moore Nature ne'er never o'er once Ovid pain passion pleasure Pope pride proud Proverb Rochefoucauld scorn Scott sense Shakspeare sighs sleep smile soft sorrow soul Spanish Proverb speak sweet Sydney Smith tears tender thee There's things thou hast thought tongue trust truth vice virtue warm wife wise woman women wooed words Wordsworth Young youth