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There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.

Thomas Hood

Ode to Melancholy

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Hood, Thomas. "Ode to Melancholy." The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur and Other Poems. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green/Philadelphia: E. Littell, 1827.

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Hood, Thomas. "Ode to Melancholy." Selected Poems of Thomas Hood. Harvard University Press, 1970.

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There is a silence where hath been no sound,
There is a silence where no sound may be,
In the cold grave-under the deep, deep sea.

Thomas Hood

Silence

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Hood, Thomas. "Silence." The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur and Other Poems. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green/Philadelphia: E. Littell, 1827.

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Hood, Thomas. "Silence." Selected Poems of Thomas Hood. Harvard University Press, 1970.

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Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to purchase.

William Blake

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Blake, William and Edwin John Ellis and William Butler Yeats. "Vala, or The Four Zoas." The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1893, night 2.

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Blake, William. "The Four Zoas: Vala Night the Second." The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. University of California Press, 2008.

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The happiest day, the happiest hour
My seared and blighted heart hath known,
The highest hope of pride and power,
I feel hath flown.

Edgar Allan Poe

Tamerlane and Other Poems

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Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Happiest Day." Tamerlane and Other Poems. Boston: Calvin F. S. Thomas, 1827, st. 1.

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Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Happiest Day." Edgar Allen Poe: Poetry and Tales, edited by Patrick F. Quinn. Library of America, 1984, st. 1.

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The three great elements of modern civilisation, Gunpowder, Printing and the Protestant Religion.

Thomas Carlyle

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Carlyle, Thomas. "State of German Literature." Edinburgh Review, Oct. 1827.

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Carlyle, Thomas. "State of German Literature." The Works of Thomas Carlyle, edited by Henry Duff Traill. Vol. 26, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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Hazlitt, William. "On Reading New Books." Monthly Magazine, July 1827.

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Hazlitt, William. "On Reading New Books." The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt. Vol. 9, Routledge, 2020.

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The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Thomas Carlyle

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Carlyle, Thomas. "Jean Paul Friedrich Richter." The Edinburgh Review, June 1827.

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Carlyle, Thomas. "Jean Paul Friedrich Richter." The Works of Thomas Carlyle, edited by Henry Duff Traill. Vol. 26, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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I saw old Autumn in the misty morn
Stand shadowless like Silence, listening
To silence.

Thomas Hood

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Hood, Thomas. "Ode: Autumn." The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur and Other Poems. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green/Philadelphia: E. Littell, 1827.

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Hood, Thomas. "Ode: Autumn." Selected Poems of Thomas Hood. Harvard University Press, 1970.

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