"Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,--the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can."

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"There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead."

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"Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath."

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"Sweetest melodies Are those that are by distance made more sweet."

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"But he is risen, a later star of dawn."

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"Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance."

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"Alas! how little can a moment show Of an eye where feeling plays In ten thousand dewy rays: A face o'er which a thousand shadows go!"

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"The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth."

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"Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good. Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow."

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"The Eagle, he was lord above, And Rob was lord below."

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""A jolly place," said he, "in times of old! But something ails it now: the spot is cursed.""

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"O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?"

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"The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality."

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"Nature's old felicities."

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"To the solid ground Of Nature trusts the mind that builds for aye."

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"The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage; A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er the weight Of seventy years, to loftier height."

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""What is good for a bootless bene?" With these dark words begins my tale; And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail?"

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"Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound."

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"Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar."

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"A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy."

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"In years that bring the philosophic mind."

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"The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill; A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command."

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"True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved."

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"But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation."

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"Monastic brotherhood, upon rock Aerial."

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"He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal,-- The past unsighed for, and the future sure."

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"Meek Walton's heavenly memory."

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"Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?"

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"The silence that is in the starry sky."

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"Wisdom married to immortal verse."

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"Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!"

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"Recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul."

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"As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean they, this deed accursed An emblem yields to friends and enemies How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed."

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"Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested with purpureal gleams."

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"Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven.""

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"Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone."

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"Shalt show us how divine a thing A woman may be made."

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"To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."

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"Say to the seceded States, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace.""

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"A prosperous fool is a grievous burden."

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"Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy. . . . I well know that mirror of friendship, shadow of a shade."

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"Time as he grows old teaches many lessons."

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"Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart."

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"So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, "With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.""

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"Exiles feed on hope."

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"Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old."

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"Words are the physicians of a mind diseased."

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"Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof."

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"Success is man's god."

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""Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness."

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