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What voice did on my spirit fall,
Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost?
‘’Tis better to have fought and lost,
Than never to have fought at all.’

— Arthur Hugh Clough

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Compare: Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H., Canto XXVII (1850)

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War

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Thou shalt have one God only; who
Would be at the expense of two?

The horrible pleasure of pleasing inferior people.

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Amours de Voyage (1858)

A world where nothing is had for nothing.

The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich (1848)

That out of sight is out of mind
Is true of most we leave behind.

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