"Hearkners, we say, seldom hear good of themselves."

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"To fish in troubled waters."

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"Not lost, but gone before."

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"Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore called the staff of life."

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"After a storm comes a calm."

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"Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours that are but skin-deep."

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"Our creature comforts."

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"It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with."

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"It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church."

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"A sweet attractive kinde of grace, A full assurance given by lookes, Continuall comfort in a face The lineaments of Gospell bookes."

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"Was never eie did see that face, Was never eare did heare that tong, Was never minde did minde his grace, That ever thought the travell long; But eies and eares and ev'ry thought Were with his sweete perfections caught."

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"Wandering between two worlds,--one dead, The other powerless to be born."

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"Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force; But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power?"

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"The kings of modern thought are dumb."

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"Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge."

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"To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man."

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"Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the children of the light."

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"Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!"

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"There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail.""

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"Though pleased to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way."

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"Fling but a stone, the giant dies."

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"Thus I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale."

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"That if weak women went astray, Their stars were more in fault than they."

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"Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?"

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"Abra was ready ere I called her name; And though I called another, Abra came."

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"That air and harmony of shape express, Fine by degrees, and beautifully less."

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"The end must justify the means."

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"Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn; And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born."

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"Be to her virtues very kind; Be to her faults a little blind."

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"A Rechabite poor Will must live, And drink of Adam's ale."

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"Now fitted the halter, now traversed the cart, And often took leave, but was loth to depart."

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"From ignorance our comfort flows. The only wretched are the wise."

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"Our hopes, like towering falcons, aim At objects in an airy height; The little pleasure of the game Is from afar to view the flight."

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"His noble negligences teach What others' toils despair to reach."

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"Soft peace she brings; wherever she arrives She builds our quiet as she forms our lives; Lays the rough paths of peevish Nature even, And opens in each heart a little heaven."

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"All jargon of the schools."

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"Nobles and heralds, by your leave, Here lies what once was Matthew Prior; The son of Adam and of Eve: Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher?"

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"For hope is but the dream of those that wake."

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"And thought the nation ne'er would thrive Till all the whores were burnt alive."

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"Till their own dreams at length deceive 'em, And oft repeating, they believe 'em."

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"They never taste who always drink; They always talk who never think."

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"The coast was clear."

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"When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou wouldst, when all have given him over, From death to life thou might'st him yet recover."

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"But whether on the scaffold high Or in the battle's van, The fittest place where man can die Is where he dies for man!"

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"It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying."

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"Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject."

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"For a desperate disease a desperate cure."

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"And not to serve for a table-talk."

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"There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants."

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"Accustom him to everything, that he may not be a Sir Paris, a carpet-knight, but a sinewy, hardy, and vigorous young man."

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