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For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry.
-- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- To ------, after reading a Life...
For numerical analysis, there are theorems that are true, and theorems that are REALLY true.
-- John Dennis (in Upson's Familiar Quotations)...
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these
It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) -- Maud Muller, st. 53...
For of fortunes sharpe adversite, The worst kind of infortune is this,-- A man that hath been in prosperite, And it remember whan it passed is.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Troilus and Creseid...
For, O, for, O, the hobby-horse is forgot. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act iii, Sc.
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For of the most High cometh healing. -- Old Testament -- Ecclesiasticus xxxviii, 2
For of the soule the bodie forme doth take; For soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.
-- Edmund Spenser (1553-1599) -- An Hymne in Honour of Beautie, Line 132...
For oh! so wildly do I love him That paradise itself were dim And joyless, if not shared with him.
-- Moore...
For once I'm at a loss for words. Mark down the date!
For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.
-- George Chapman (1557-1634) -- Monsieur D'Olive, Act v, Sc. 1...

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