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• A love that took an early root, And had an early doom.
  -- Thomas K. Hervey (1799-1859) -- The Devil's Progre...
• The tomb of him who would have made The world too glad and free.
  -- Thomas K. Hervey (1799-1859) -- The Devil's Progre...
• Like ships, that sailed for sunny isles, But never came to shore.
  -- Thomas K. Hervey (1799-1859) -- The Devil's Progre...
• Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on them [public offices], a rottenness begins in his conduct.
  -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 1799...
• His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. -- Old Testament -- Deuteronomy xxxiv, 7
• He stood beside a cottage lone And listened to a lute, One summer's eve, when the breeze was gone, And the nightingale was mute.
  -- Thomas K. Hervey (1799-1859) -- The Devil's Progre...
• A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. -- Thomas Ma
• His eyes were cold. As cold as the bitter winter snow that was falling outside.
  Yes, cold and therefore difficult to chew......
• So dim that his psychic carries a flashlight.