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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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Charles Kingsley. (1819–1875) (continued)
 
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    Creep home, and take your place there,
  The spent and maimed among:—
God grant you find one face there
  You loved when all was young!
          Water Babies. Song ii.
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      To be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ of the first upgrowth of all virtue.
          Health and Education.
 
George (Marian Evans Cross) Eliot. (1819–1880)
 
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    Creeds of terror.
          Spanish Gypsy. Book i.
7265
    A serious ape whom none take seriously,
Obliged in this fool’s world to earn his nuts
By hard buffoonery.
          Spanish Gypsy. Book i.
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    His smile is sweetened by his gravity.
          Spanish Gypsy. Book i.
7267
    Certain winds will make men’s temper bad.
          Spanish Gypsy. Book i.
7268
    Sad as a wasted passion.
          Spanish Gypsy. Book i.
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      Knightly love is blent with reverence
As heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue.
          Spanish Gypsy. Book i.
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      Inclination snatches arguments
To make indulgence seem judicious choice.
          Spanish Gypsy. Book i.
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      Perhaps the wind
Wails so in winter for the summers dead,
And all sad sounds are nature’s funeral cries
For what has been and is not.
          Spanish Gypsy. Book i.
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              Who can prove
Wit to be witty when with deeper ground
Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?
          A College Breakfast-party.