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But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise,
Kings would not play at.

William Cowper

The Winter Morning Walk

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Cowper, William. The Task. London: Joseph Johnson, 1785, bk. 5.

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Cowper, William. "The Task." William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems, edited by James Sambrook. Routledge, 2016, bk. 5.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Moral and Religious Aphorisms." Aids to Reflection. London: Taylor and Hessey, 1825, aphorism 25.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Moral and Religious Aphorisms." The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, vol. 9: Aids to Reflection, edited by Kathleen Coburn and Bart Winer. Princeton University Press, 2017.

The most despairing songs are the loveliest of all,
I know immortal ones composed only of tears.

Alfred de Musset

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Musset, Alfred. "La nuit de mai [A Night In May]." Revue des Deux Mondes, 15 June 1835.

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Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letter to Arthur Charles Stanhope. 12 Oct. 1765. 

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France, Anatole. L'Ile des Pingouins [Penguin Island]. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1908, bk. 6, ch. 2.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford

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Rutherford, Ernest. Quoted in Rutherford at Manchester, by J. B. Birks. Heywood and Company, 1962.

Selfhood begins with a walking away,
And love is proved in the letting go.

Cecil Day-Lewis

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Day-Lewis, Cecil. "Walking Away." The Gate, and Other Poems. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962, I. 19.

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Clare, John. The Present is the Funeral of the Past. c. 1845, I. 1.

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Clare, John. "The Present is the Funeral of the Past." The Later Poems of John Clare. Oxford University Press, 1984, I. 1.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (1st Corinthians 1:20).

Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore,
And coming events cast their shadows before.

Thomas Campbell

Lochiels's Warning

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Campbell, Thomas. Lochiel's Warning. c. 1802.

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Wordsworth, William. Poems, in Two Volumes. Vol. 1, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1807, pt. 1, no. 18, I. 1.

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Wordsworth, William. "The world is too much with us." William Wordsworth: The Major Works: including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. 24 Aug. 1966, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh, Scotland, act 2.

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Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Grove Press, 2017, act 2.

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Burke, Edmund. Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents. London: J. Dodsley, 1770.

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Burke, Edmund. "Thoughts on the Present Discontents." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

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Shakespeare, William. The Merchant of Venice. c. 1598, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Merchant of Venice." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 2.

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Patmore, Coventry. The Angel in the House. Self-published, 1854, bk. 2, canto 9, prelude 2.

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Kundera, Milan. L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]. Gallimard, 1984.

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Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, translated by Michael Henry Heim. Harper Perennial, 2009.

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Shakespeare, William. Love's Labour's Lost. 1597, England, UK, act 4, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "Love's Labour's Lost." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 3.

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

L.P. Hartley

The Go-Between

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Hartley, L. P. The Go-Between. Hamish Hamilton, 1953, preface.

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Wordsworth, William. Poems, in Two Volumes. Vol. 2, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807.

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Wordsworth, William. "My heart leaps up when I behold." William Wordsworth: The Major Works: including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008.