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First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: August 4th, 1792

Died: July 8th, 1822

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