You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?

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Life is too short for chess.

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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

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They never fail who die in a great cause.

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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.

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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.

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There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.

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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

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'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.

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