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The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one.

F.W. Bourdillon

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Bourdillon, Francis William. "Light." Among the Flowers and Other Poems. Marcus Ward & Co., 1878.

We live and learn, but not the wiser grow.

John Pomfret

Reason

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Pomfret, John. Reason. London: J. Nutt, c. 1700.

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Young, Edward. The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality. London: R. Dodsley, 1742, Night 1, I. 393.

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Young, Edward. Edward Young: Night Thoughts, edited by Stephen Cornford. Cambridge University Press, 2008, Night 1, I. 393.

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Frost, Robert. "Happiness Makes Up in Height for What it Lacks in Length." A Witness Tree. Henry Holt and Company, 1942.

Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.

Rabindranath Tagore

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Tagore, Rabindrath. Stray Birds. The Macmillan Company, 1916, no. 110.

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Dryden, John. The Indian Emperor. King's Company, 1665, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 1.

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Dryden, John. "The Indian Emperor." The Works of John Dryden. Vol. 9. University of California Press, 1967, act 4, sc. 1.

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Henley, William Ernest. Book of Verses. London: David Nutt, 1888.

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Henley, William Ernest. "Invictus." A Selection of Poems. White Press, 2015, st. 4.

But what is Freedom? Rightly understood,
A universal licence to be good.

Hartley Coleridge

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Coleridge, Hartley. Liberty. c. 1833, I. 13.

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Tennyson, Alfred. "Locksley Hall." Poems. Vol. 2, London: Edward Moxon, 1842, I. 137.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "Locksley Hall." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 137.

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France, Anatole. Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard [The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard]. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1881, pt. 2, ch. 4.

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Nash, Ogden. "The Kitten." The Face Is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash. Garden City Publishing Company, 1941.

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Yeats, William Butler. "A Dialogue of Self and Soul." The Winding Stair and Other Poems. The Macmillan Company, 1933, pt. 2, st. 1.

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Yeats, William Butler. "A Dialogue of Self and Soul." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Goldsmith, Oliver. The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society. London: John Newbery, 1764.

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Wilcox, Ella Wheeler. "Protest." Poems of Problems. W. B. Conkey Company, 1914.

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Southey, Robert. "The Battle of Blenheim." Metrical Tales and Other Poems. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805, I. 29.

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Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Man." London: J. Wilford, 1733, ep. 3, I. 303.

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Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Man." The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, ep. 3, l. 303.

And what is so rare as a day in June?
Then, if ever, come perfect days.

James Russell Lowell

The Vision of Sir Launful

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Lowell, James Russell. "The Vision of Sir Launfal." The Vision of Sir Launfal and Other Poems. Cambridge: George Nichols, 1848, st. 5.

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La Fontaine, Jean. "Le chene et le roseau [The Oak and the Reed]." Fables. Paris, 1668, bk. 1, no. 22.

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La Fontaine, Jean. "The Oak and the Reed." The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine, translated by Norman R. Shapiro. University of Illinois Press, 2007, bk. 1, no. 22.

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Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1599, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "A Midsummer Night's Dream." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act. 3, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William and John Fletcher. Henry VIII. King's Men, 1613, Globe Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Henry the Eighth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblattet al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 2.