"Were you with these, my prince, you 'd soon forget The pale, unripened beauties of the north."

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"What are the wild waves saying, Sister, the whole day long, That ever amid our playing I hear but their low, lone song?"

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"Death is an eternal sleep."

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""It is more than a crime; it is a political fault,"--words which I record, because they have been repeated and attributed to others."

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"Man's life is like unto a winter's day,-- Some break their fast and so depart away; Others stay dinner, then depart full fed; The longest age but sups and goes to bed. O reader, then behold and see! As we are now, so must you be."

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"Well, General, we have not had many dead cavalrymen lying about lately."

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"Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause, Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause, And when the storm of war was gone, Enjoyed the peace your valor won. Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let its altar reach the skies!"

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"Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us?"

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"Ye sons of France, awake to glory! Hark! hark! what myriads bid you rise! Your children, wives, and grandsires hoary, Behold their tears and hear their cries!"

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"To arms! to arms! ye brave! The avenging sword unsheathe! March on! march on! all hearts resolved On victory or death!"

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"Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Unaw'd by influence and unbrib'd by gain; Here patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw, Pledg'd to Religion, Liberty, and Law."

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"If this bill [for the admission of Orleans Territory as a State] passes, it is my deliberate opinion that it is virtually a dissolution of the Union; that it will free the States from their moral obligation; and, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, definitely to prepare for a separation,--amicably if they can, violently if they must."

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"Blandishments will not fascinate us, nor will threats of a "halter" intimidate. For, under God, we are determined that wheresoever, whensoever, or howsoever we shall be called to make our exit, we will die free men."

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"Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Help to make earth happy like the heaven above."

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"Little drops of water, little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land. So the little minutes, humble though they be, Make the mighty ages of eternity."

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"Oh the heart is a free and a fetterless thing,-- A wave of the ocean, a bird on the wing!"

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"No man ever became extremely wicked all at once."

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"Grammarian, orator, geometrician; painter, gymnastic teacher, physician; fortune-teller, rope-dancer, conjuror,--he knew everything."

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"Nobility is the one only virtue."

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"Pray, Goody, please to moderate the rancour of your tongue! Why flash those sparks of fury from your eyes? Remember, when the judgment 's weak the prejudice is strong."

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"Stately and tall he moves in the hall, The chief of a thousand for grace."

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"I 'm very lonely now, Mary, For the poor make no new friends; But oh they love the better still The few our Father sends!"

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"I 'm sitting on the stile, Mary, Where we sat side by side."

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"But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me."

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"Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet."

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"Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,-- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied."

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"Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that 's scarcely felt or seen."

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"And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last."

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"Oh, we 're a' noddin', nid, nid, noddin'; Oh, we 're a' noddin' at our house at hame."

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"Gude nicht, and joy be wi' you a'."

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"A penniless lass wi' a lang pedigree."

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"There 's nae sorrow there, John, There 's neither cauld nor care, John, The day is aye fair, In the land o' the leal."

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"The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in; and the recording angel as he wrote it down dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever."

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""They order," said I, "this matter better in France.""

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"The sad vicissitude of things."

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"God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb."

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""Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.""

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"I am sick as a horse."

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"Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything."

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""Our armies swore terribly in Flanders," cried my Uncle Toby, "but nothing to this.""

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"Great wits jump."

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"Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!"

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"Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me."

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"I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, "'T is all barren!""

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"Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace."

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"And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest."

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"Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!"

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"With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks."

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"Write me as one who loves his fellow-men."

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"On a lone barren isle, where the wild roaring billows Assail the stern rock, and the loud tempests rave, The hero lies still, while the dew-drooping willows, Like fond weeping mourners, lean over his grave. The lightnings may flash and the loud thunders rattle; He heeds not, he hears not, he 's free from all pain; He sleeps his last sleep, he has fought his last battle; No sound can awake him to glory again!"

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