"But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame."

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"God never had a church but there, men say, The Devil a chapel hath raised by some wyles. I doubted of this saw, till on a day I westward spied great Edinburgh's Saint Gyles."

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"I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me; If my bark sinks, 't is to another sea."

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"I sing New England, as she lights her fire In every Prairie's midst; and where the bright Enchanting stars shine pure through Southern night, She still is there, the guardian on the tower, To open for the world a purer hour."

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"Most joyful let the Poet be; It is through him that all men see."

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"There is a higher law than the Constitution."

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"It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces."

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"Junius, Aprilis, Septémq; Nouemq; tricenos, Vnum plus reliqui, Februs tenet octo vicenos, At si bissextus fuerit superadditur vnus."

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"Oh why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a fast-flitting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passes from life to his rest in the grave."

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"They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy."

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"Our country is the world; our countrymen are all mankind."

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"I am in earnest. I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard!"

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"I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice."

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"Our country is the world; our countrymen are mankind."

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"The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell."

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"My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind."

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"The fattest hog in Epicurus' sty."

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"She 's all my fancy painted her; She 's lovely, she 's divine."

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"Wee Willie Winkie rins through the toun, Upstairs and dounstairs, in his nicht-goun, Tirlin' at the window, cryin' at the lock, "Are the weans in their bed? for it 's nou ten o'clock.""

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"I 've wandered east, I 've wandered west, Through many a weary way; But never, never can forget The love of life's young day."

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"And we, with Nature's heart in tune, Concerted harmonies."

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"Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me, and drink as I."

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"Who can refute a sneer?"

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"Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all That shared its shelter perish in its fall."

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"Necessity is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."

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"My eyes! what tiles and chimney-pots About their heads are flying!"

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"A strong nor'-wester 's blowing, Bill! Hark! don't ye hear it roar now? Lord help 'em, how I pities them Unhappy folks on shore now!"

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"Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations."

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"The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter, the rain may enter,--but the King of England cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!"

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"Where law ends, tyranny begins."

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"A long train of these practices has at length unwillingly convinced me that there is something behind the throne greater than the King himself."

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"If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms,--never! never! never!"

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"Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom."

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"We have a Calvinistic creed, a Popish liturgy, and an Arminian clergy."

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"For twelve honest men have decided the cause, Who are judges alike of the facts and the laws."

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"Too late I stayed,--forgive the crime! Unheeded flew the hours; How noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads on flowers."

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"A wretched soul, bruised with adversity."

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"I hold you as a thing ensky'd and sainted."

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"I cannot tell what the dickens his name is."

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"What a taking was he in when your husband asked who was in the basket!"

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"Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it?"

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"Fill all thy bones with aches."

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"We have some salt of our youth in us."

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"Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now."

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"In his old lunes again."

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"Happy man be his dole!"

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"As good luck would have it."

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"O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant."

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"Let 's go hand in hand, not one before another."

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"No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does."

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