Fitz-Greene Halleck Quotes

#1. I sorrow that all fair things must decay.

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#2. Ere the dolphin dies
Its hues are brightest. Like an infant's breath
Are tropic winds before the voice of death.

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#3. Come to the bridal-chamber, Death!
Come to the mother's, when she feels,
For the first time, her first-born's breath!
Come when the blessed seals
That close the pestilence are broke,
And crowded cities wail its stroke!

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#4. I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.

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#5. This bank-note world.

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#6. They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why; Would shake hands with a king upon his throne, And think it kindness to his majesty. - Fitz

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#7. And Burns
though brief the race he ran,
Though rough and dark the paths he trod,
Lived
died
in form and soul a man,
The image of his God.

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#8. None knew thee but to love thee.

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#9. Strike-for your altars and your fires;
Strike-for the green graves of your sires;
God-and your native land!

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#10. There is an evening twilight of the heart, When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest.

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#11. What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm.

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#12. It is a rich storehouse for those who love quotations. It is as full of fine bon mots as a Christmas pudding is full of plums.

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#13. And thou art terrible
the tear,
The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier;
And all we know, or dream, or fear
Of agony, are thine.

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#14. The wild-flower wreath of feeling, the sunbeam of the heart.

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#15. Green be the turf above thee,
Friend of my better days!
None knew thee but to love thee,
Nor named thee but to praise.

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