"O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!"

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"True love 's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes soon as granted fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart and mind to mind In body and in soul can bind."

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"Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven."

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"Come as the winds come, when Forests are rended; Come as the waves come, when Navies are stranded."

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"Art thou a friend to Roderick?"

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"Such is the custom of Branksome Hall."

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"O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood; Land of the mountain and the flood!"

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"Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth."

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"In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below and saints above; For love is heaven, and heaven is love."

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"Oh, Brignall banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer's queen."

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"No pale gradations quench his ray, No twilight dews his wrath allay."

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"Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!"

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"On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quench'd the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth: Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare."

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"And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel."

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"Hail to the chief who in triumph advances!"

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"Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more."

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"Ne'er Was flattery lost on poet's ear; A simple race! they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile."

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"And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn."

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"Ah, County Guy, the hour is nigh, The sun has left the lea. The orange flower perfumes the bower, The breeze is on the sea."

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""Lambe them, lads! lambe them!" a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time."

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"Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name."

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"Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries!"

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"It 's no fish ye 're buying, it 's men's lives."

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"Bluid is thicker than water."

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"There 's a gude time coming."

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"Rouse the lion from his lair."

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"Fat, fair, and forty."

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"Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers."

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"Woman's faith and woman's trust, Write the characters in dust."

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"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect."

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"The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out."

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"Sea of upturned faces."

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"Widowed wife and wedded maid."

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"What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?"

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"When Israel, of the Lord belov'd, Out of the land of bondage came, Her fathers' God before her mov'd, An awful guide in smoke and flame."

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"I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd."

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"Scared out of his seven senses."

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"But with the morning cool reflection came."

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"Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye 're sleeping."

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"The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances."

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"The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V."

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"My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor."

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"The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength,--the floating bulwark of our island."

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"Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary."

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"Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know."

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"The assembled souls of all that men held wise."

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"For angling-rod he took a sturdy oake; For line, a cable that in storm ne'er broke; His hooke was such as heads the end of pole To pluck down house ere fire consumes it whole; The hook was baited with a dragon's tale,-- And then on rock he stood to bob for whale."

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"On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep."

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"Go boldly forth, my simple lay, Whose accents flow with artless ease, Like orient pearls at random strung."

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"What constitutes a state? . . . . . . . Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain. . . . . . . . And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill."

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