"'T is merry in hall Where beards wag all."

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"Where to elect there is but one, 'T is Hobson's choice,--take that or none."

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"All human race, from China to Peru, Pleasure, howe'er disguis'd by art, pursue."

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"Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers."

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"Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen."

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"Man proposes, but God disposes."

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"And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind."

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"Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world and child of the skies! Thy genius commands thee; with rapture behold, While ages on ages thy splendors unfold."

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"Thy fatal shafts unerring move, I bow before thine altar, Love!"

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"Thy spirit, Independence, let me share; Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye, Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky."

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"Facts are stubborn things."

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"I do not love thee, Doctor Fell, The reason why I cannot tell; But this alone I know full well, I do not love thee, Doctor Fell."

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"To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back."

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"In the reign of Charles II. a certain worthy divine at Whitehall thus addressed himself to the auditory at the conclusion of his sermon: "In short, if you don't live up to the precepts of the Gospel, but abandon yourselves to your irregular appetites, you must expect to receive your reward in a certain place which 't is not good manners to mention here.""

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"I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effectual as their strict construction."

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"I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer."

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"Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a duty."

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"Let us have peace."

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"No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works."

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"Much of a muchness."

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"Great thoughts come from the heart."

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"The dignity of history."

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"I have read somewhere or other,--in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,--that history is philosophy teaching by examples."

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"It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature's God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word."

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"Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one."

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"For there 's nae luck about the house, There 's nae luck at a'; There 's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman 's awa'."

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"His very foot has music in 't As he comes up the stairs."

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"The dews of summer nights did fall, The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall And many an oak that grew thereby."

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"Some lie beneath the churchyard stone, And some before the speaker."

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"Twelve years ago I was a boy, A happy boy at Drury's."

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"I remember, I remember How my childhood fleeted by,-- The mirth of its December And the warmth of its July."

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"May I govern my passion with absolute sway, And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away."

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"Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee."

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"Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's,-- Therefore on him no speech! And brief for thee, Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath walk'd along our roads with steps So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse."

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"Wearers of rings and chains! Pray do not take the pains To set me right. In vain my faults ye quote; I write as others wrote On Sunium's hight."

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"But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked His chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave: Shake one, and it awakens; then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there."

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"The Siren waits thee, singing song for song."

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"I strove with none, for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved; and next to Nature, Art. I warm'd both hands against the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart."

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"The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages."

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"Free-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea."

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"Every man meets his Waterloo at last."

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"What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action."

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"Revolutions never go backward."

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"Revolutions are not made; they come."

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"One on God's side is a majority."

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"I would not live alway: I ask not to stay Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the way."

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"Who dares this pair of boots displace, Must meet Bombastes face to face."

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"Artax. So have I heard on Afric's burning shore Another lion give a grievous roar; And the first lion thought the last a bore."

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"Did therewith bury in oblivion."

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"Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span."

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