"But still his tongue ran on, the less Of weight it bore, with greater ease."

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"He ne'er consider'd it, as loth To look a gift-horse in the mouth."

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"He could distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and southwest side."

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"And prove their doctrine orthodox, By apostolic blows and knocks."

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"Where entity and quiddity, The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly."

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"Why should not conscience have vacation As well as other courts o' th' nation?"

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"True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin'd upon."

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"Like feather bed betwixt a wall And heavy brunt of cannon ball."

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"And wisely tell what hour o' the day The clock does strike, by algebra."

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"For what is worth in anything But so much money as 't will bring?"

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"He knew what 's what, and that 's as high As metaphysic wit can fly."

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"For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses."

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"Cheer'd up himself with ends of verse And sayings of philosophers."

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"He made an instrument to know If the moon shine at full or no."

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"I am not now in fortune's power: He that is down can fall no lower."

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"He that imposes an oath makes it, Not he that for convenience takes it; Then how can any man be said To break an oath he never made?"

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"For those that run away and fly, Take place at least o' the enemy."

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"Still amorous and fond and billing, Like Philip and Mary on a shilling."

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"For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools."

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"A Babylonish dialect Which learned pedants much affect."

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"As if religion was intended For nothing else but to be mended."

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"What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was prov'd true before Prove false again? Two hundred more."

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"This is the thing that I was born to do."

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"Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!"

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"As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind To look out thorough, and his frailty find."

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"Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born."

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"And who (in time) knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue? To what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident May come refin'd with th' accents that are ours?"

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"And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world."

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"Sacred religion! mother of form and fear."

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"The glory dies not, and the grief is past."

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"He made him a hut, wherein he did put The carcass of Robinson Crusoe. O poor Robinson Crusoe!"

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"Born in a cellar, and living in a garret."

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"Our fathers' God, to thee; Author of liberty, To thee I sing; Long may our land be bright With freedom's holy light; Protect us by thy might, Great God, our King!"

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"My country, 't is of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing: Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountain-side Let freedom ring."

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"To die is landing on some silent shore Where billows never break, nor tempests roar; Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 't is o'er."

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"For all their luxury was doing good."

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"I see the right, and I approve it too, Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue."

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"Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds."

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"There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly,--but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other."

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"Books that you may carry to the fire and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all."

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"Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest."

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"You see they 'd have fitted him to a T."

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"Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen."

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"He was so generally civil that nobody thanked him for it."

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"I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me."

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"I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven."

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"Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true."

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"And sure th' Eternal Master found His single talent well employ'd."

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"The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small."

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"I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence."

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