Quote #56

Society friendship and love Divinely bestow'd upon man, O had I the wings of a dove How soon I would taste you again!

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  1. I am out of humanity's reach. I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech; I start at the sound of my own.
  2. Religion! what treasure untold Resides in that heavenly word!
  3. O solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place.
  4. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
  5. I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute; From the center all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
  6. There is mercy in every place, And mercy, encouraging thought! Gives even affliction a grace And reconciles man to his lot.
  7. I praise the Frenchman [Voltaire], his remark was shrewd - How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my ret…
  8. Though on pleasure she was bent, She had a frugal mind.

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