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• 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 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...
• Sorrows remember'd sweeten present joy.
  -- Robert Pollok (1799-1827) -- The Course of Time, Book i, Line 464...
• And I have loved thee, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward
  from a boy. I wantoned with thy breakers, . ....
• He [Kippis] might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move.
  -- Robert Hall (1764-1831) -- Gregory's Life of Hall...
• For contemplation he and valour form'd, For softness she and sweet attractive grace
  He for God only, she for God in him. His fair large front and eye sublime declar'd Absolute rule...
• Time has laid his hand Upon my heart gently, not smiting it, But as a harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations.
  -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- Tales of a Wayside Inn, The Golden Legend...
• Thy Linking our England to his Italy.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- The Ring and the Book, The Book and the Ring, Line 873...
• The schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand, Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.
  -- Robert Blair (1699-1747) -- The Grave, Part i, Line 58...