A garden was the primitive prison, till man, with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
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Oh, breathe not his name let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid,Charles Lamb
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We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
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Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.
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This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, There 's nothing true but Heaven.
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