"When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy? What art can wash her guilt away?"

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"And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep?"

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"By the living jingo, she was all of a muck of sweat."

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"The sigh that rends thy constant heart Shall break thy Edwin's too."

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"To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?"

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"To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives."

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"Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long."

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"One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title-page, another works away the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index."

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"I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellect too."

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"The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable."

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"It has been a thousand times observed, and I must observe it once more, that the hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition."

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"Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them."

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"Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray."

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"For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again."

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"Handsome is that handsome does."

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"We have met the enemy, and they are ours."

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"Thou say'st an undisputed thing In such a solemn way."

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"A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times."

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"The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men."

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"The hat is the ultimum moriens of respectability."

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"O hearts that break and give no sign Save whitening lip and fading tresses!"

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"Yes, child of suffering, thou mayst well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!"

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"You hear that boy laughing?--you think he 's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all."

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"Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky."

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"Boston State-house is the hub of the solar system. You could n't pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crow-bar."

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"Thine eye was on the censer, And not the hand that bore it."

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"Their discords sting through Burns and Moore, Like hedgehogs dressed in lace."

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"I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here; But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer!"

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"But Memory blushes at the sneer, And Honor turns with frown defiant, And Freedom, leaning on her spear, Laughs louder than the laughing giant."

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"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."

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"The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb."

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"His home! the Western giant smiles, And twirls the spotty globe to find it; This little speck, the British Isles? 'T is but a freckle,--never mind it."

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"And since, I never dare to write As funny as I can."

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"Good to the heels the well-worn slipper feels When the tired player shuffles off the buskin; A page of Hood may do a fellow good After a scolding from Carlyle or Ruskin."

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"Knowledge and timber should n't be much used till they are seasoned."

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"The freeman casting with unpurchased hand The vote that shakes the turrets of the land."

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"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

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"You think they are crusaders sent From some infernal clime, To pluck the eyes of sentiment And dock the tail of Rhyme, To crack the voice of Melody And break the legs of Time."

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"Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale!"

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"When the last reader reads no more."

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"A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is proud to win them; Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them!"

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"Where go the poet's lines? Answer, ye evening tapers! Ye auburn locks, ye golden curls, Speak from your folded papers!"

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"There is that glorious epicurean paradox uttered by my friend the historian, in one of his flashing moments: "Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries." To this must certainly be added that other saying of one of the wittiest of men: "Good Americans when they die go to Paris.""

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"Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!"

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"Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all."

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"The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city."

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"People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks."

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"And when you stick on conversation's burrs, Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs."

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"'T is the heart's current lends the cup its glow, Whate'er the fountain whence the draught may flow."

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"Like sentinel and nun, they keep Their vigil on the green."

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