"He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, Tormenting himself with his prickles."

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"When he is forsaken, Wither'd and shaken, What can an old man do but die?"

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"One more unfortunate Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death."

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"She stood breast-high amid the corn Clasp'd by the golden light of morn, Like the sweetheart of the sun, Who many a glowing kiss had won."

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"Straight down the crooked lane, And all round the square."

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"O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!"

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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, Or in the wide desert where no life is found."

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"O God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!"

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"Thus she stood amid the stooks, Praising God with sweetest looks."

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"Sewing at once a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt."

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"O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head!"

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"Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold."

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"Spurn'd by the young, but hugg'd by the old To the very verge of the churchyard mould."

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"The Quaker loves an ample brim, A hat that bows to no salaam; And dear the beaver is to him As if it never made a dam."

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"Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care; Fashioned so slenderly, Young, and so fair!"

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"Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died."

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"And there is even a happiness That makes the heart afraid."

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"Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."

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"We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

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"When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property."

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"If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none."

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"We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour."

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"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time."

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"Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just."

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"In the full tide of successful experiment."

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"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

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"A love that took an early root, And had an early doom."

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"The tomb of him who would have made The world too glad and free."

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"Like ships, that sailed for sunny isles, But never came to shore."

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"He stood beside a cottage lone And listened to a lute, One summer's eve, when the breeze was gone, And the nightingale was mute."

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"A Hebrew knelt in the dying light, His eye was dim and cold, The hairs on his brow were silver-white, And his blood was thin and old."

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"Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!"

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"Have you summoned your wits from wool-gathering?"

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"From thousands of our undone widows One may derive some wit."

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"'T is a stinger."

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"I smell a rat."

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"Turn over a new leaf."

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"As old Chaucer was wont to say, that broad famous English poet."

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"'T is slight, not strength, that gives the greatest lift."

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"Let the air strike our tune, Whilst we show reverence to yond peeping moon."

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"Spick and span new."

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"That disease Of which all old men sicken,--avarice."

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"The better day, the better deed."

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"A flat case as plain as a pack-staff."

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"All is not gold that glisteneth."

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"Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary."

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"The world 's a stage on which all parts are played."

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"There is no hate lost between us."

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"My nearest And dearest enemy."

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"As true as I live."

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