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• He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven To serve the Devil in.
  -- Robert Pollok (1799-1827) -- The Course of Time, Book viii, Line 616...
• With one hand he put A penny in the urn of poverty, And with the other took a shilling out.
  -- Robert Pollok (1799-1827) -- The Course of Time, Book viii, Line 632...
• He laid his hand upon "the Ocean's mane," And played familiar with his hoary locks.
  -- Robert Pollok (1799-1827) -- The Course of Time, Book iv, Line 389...
• Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadow
  hey pass & are done; but there is that which remains....
• Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: hail, horrors!
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book i, Line 249...
• Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- The Ring and the Book, The Pope, Line 1073...
• No greater grief than to remember days Of joy when misery is at hand.
  -- Dante (1265-1321) -- Hell, Canto v, Line 121...
• Friends applaud, the comedy is finished." ~~ Ludwig van Beethoven, composer, d. March 26, 1827
• Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line 77...