"The worst comes to the worst."

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"By many a happy accident."

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"A little too wise, they say, do ne'er live long."

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"Beat all your feathers as flat down as pancakes."

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"As the case stands."

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"This was a good week's labour."

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"Hold their noses to the grindstone."

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"From the crown of our head to the sole of our foot."

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"How many honest words have suffered corruption since Chaucer's days!"

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"On his last legs."

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"Black spirits and white, red spirits and gray, Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may."

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"Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!"

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"The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er; And hearts that once beat high for praise Now feel that pulse no more."

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"Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold."

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"Like a young eagle who has lent his plume To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom, See their own feathers pluck'd to wing the dart Which rank corruption destines for their heart."

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"As half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances, May that side the sun 's upon Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!"

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"'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dear; And that when we 're far from the lips we love, We 've but to make love to the lips we are near."

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"Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore."

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"There 's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream."

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"Beholding heaven, and feeling hell."

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"'T is the last rose of summer, Left blooming alone."

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"As sunshine broken in the rill, Though turned astray, is sunshine still."

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"Eyes of unholy blue."

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"But there 's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream."

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"Though an angel should write, still 't is devils must print."

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"Fly not yet; 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon."

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"Good at a fight, but better at a play; Godlike in giving, but the devil to pay."

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"No, the heart that has truly lov'd never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close; As the sunflower turns on her god when he sets The same look which she turn'd when he rose."

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"Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, Grow pure by being purely shone upon."

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"Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade."

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"The moon looks On many brooks "The brook can see no moon but this.""

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"I know not, I ask not, if guilt 's in that heart, I but know that I love thee whatever thou art."

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"There was a little man, and he had a little soul; And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!"

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"No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us."

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"Thus, when the lamp that lighted The traveller at first goes out, He feels awhile benighted, And looks around in fear and doubt. But soon, the prospect clearing, By cloudless starlight on he treads, And thinks no lamp so cheering As that light which Heaven sheds."

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"When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem'ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew."

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"I knew, by the smoke that so gracefully curl'd Above the green elms, that a cottage was near; And I said, "If there 's peace to be found in the world, A heart that was humble might hope for it here.""

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"Humility, that low, sweet root From which all heavenly virtues shoot."

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"This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future,--two eternities!"

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"And the best of all ways To lengthen our days Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear."

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"Where bastard Freedom waves The fustian flag in mockery over slaves."

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"You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still."

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"There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet."

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"But the trail of the serpent is over them all."

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"And oh if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this, it is this!"

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"Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied; That stood the storm when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea When heaven was all tranquillity."

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"I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed."

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"Oh stay! oh stay! Joy so seldom weaves a chain Like this to-night, that oh 't is pain To break its links so soon."

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"Love on through all ills, and love on till they die."

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"Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea."

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