"It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath."

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"God's mouth knows not to utter falsehood, but he will perform each word."

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"O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse."

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"I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil."

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"Private credit is wealth; public honour is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth."

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"I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter."

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"The gloomy companions of a disturbed imagination, the melancholy madness of poetry without the inspiration."

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"A vest as admired Voltiger had on, Which from this Island's foes his grandsire won, Whose artful colour pass'd the Tyrian dye, Obliged to triumph in this legacy."

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"Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, February has twenty-eight alone, All the rest have thirty-one; Excepting leap year,--that 's the time When February's days are twenty-nine."

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"It is so soon that I am done for, I wonder what I was begun for."

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"The mother to her daughter spake: "Daughter," said she, "arise! Thy daughter to her daughter take, Whose daughter's daughter cries.""

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"Happy am I; from care I 'm free! Why ar' n't they all contented like me?"

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"Use three Physicians,-- Still-first Dr. Quiet; Next Dr. Mery-man, And Dr. Dyet."

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"Those cherries fairly do enclose Of orient pearl a double row; Which when her lovely laughter shows, They look like rosebuds filled with snow."

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"Still so gently o'er me stealing, Mem'ry will bring back the feeling, Spite of all my grief revealing, That I love thee,--that I dearly love thee still."

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"His wife, with nine small children and one at the breast, following him to the stake."

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"The King of France went up the hill With twenty thousand men; The King of France came down the hill, And ne'er went up again."

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"A woman's work, grave sirs, is never done."

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"Count that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done."

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"But were it to my fancy given To rate her charms, I 'd call them heaven; For though a mortal made of clay, Angels must love Ann Hathaway; She hath a way so to control, To rapture the imprisoned soul, And sweetest heaven on earth display, That to be heaven Ann hath a way; She hath a way, Ann Hathaway,-- To be heaven's self Ann hath a way."

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"'T is well to be merry and wise, 'T is well to be honest and true; 'T is well to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new."

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"There is a garden in her face, Where roses and white lilies show; A heavenly paradise is that place, Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow. There cherries hang that none may buy, Till cherry ripe themselves do cry."

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"The Americans equally detest the pageantry of a king and the supercilious hypocrisy of a bishop."

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"Now bething the, gentilman, How Adam dalf, and Eve span."

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"The heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute."

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"Love divine, all love excelling, Joy of heaven to earth come down."

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"When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?"

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"When I am dead let fire destroy the world; It matters not to me, for I am safe."

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"Practice in time becomes second nature."

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"When God is planning ruin for a man, He first deprives him of his reason."

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"Toil does not come to help the idle."

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"Love thyself, and many will hate thee."

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"A man after his own heart."

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"They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they ended the matter."

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"Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked."

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"Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women."

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"I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee."

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"And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail."

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"They stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours."

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"I arose a mother in Israel."

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"Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abi-ezer?"

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"Old and well stricken in age."

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"My punishment is greater than I can bear."

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"His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him."

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"And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights."

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"Tell it not in Gath; publish it not in the streets of Askelon."

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"In a good old age."

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"The stars in their courses fought against Sisera."

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"Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God."

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"The Philistines be upon thee, Samson."

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