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Man should be ever better than he seems.

— Sir Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Baronet A Song of Faith; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

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More quotes by Sir Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Baronet

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

Widowhood; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

Poverty is a great feeder of enthusiasm.

There is no remedy for time misspent;
No healing for the waste of idleness,
Whose very languor is a punishment
Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.

How blue were Ariadne's eyes
When, from the sea's horizon line,
At eve, she raised them on the skies!
My Psyche, bluer far are thine.

Psyche; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

O Love-star of the unbeloved March,
When cold and shrill,
Forth flows beneath a low, dim-lighted arch
The wind that beats sharp crag and barren hill,
And keeps unfilmed the lately torpid rill!

Ode to the Daffodil; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

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