"As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid."

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"Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them. . . . . Into the jaws of death, Into the mouth of hell Rode the six hundred."

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"Some one had blunder'd: Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die."

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"And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance."

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"Whose faith has centre everywhere, Nor cares to fix itself to form."

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"The shadow cloak'd from head to foot."

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"Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill."

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"Liars ought to have good memories."

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"Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small."

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"Manus haec inimica tyrannis Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem."

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"It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun."

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"God helps those who help themselves."

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"A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast. And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While like the eagle free Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee."

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"While the hollow oak our palace is, Our heritage the sea."

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"When looks were fond and words were few."

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"Farewell to Lochaber, farewell to my Jean, Where heartsome wi' thee I hae mony days been; For Lochaber no more, Lochaber no more, We 'll maybe return to Lochaber no more."

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"Studious of ease, and fond of humble things."

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"For every wave with dimpled face That leap'd upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace And held it trembling there."

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"As she lay, on that day, In the bay of Biscay, O!"

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"Loud roared the dreadful thunder, The rain a deluge showers."

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"I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation."

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"You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see."

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"Our Federal Union: it must be preserved."

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"We are swinging round the circle."

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"To make a bank was a great plot of state; Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate."

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"So much one man can do, That does both act and know."

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"Annihilating all that 's made To a green thought in a green shade."

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"The world in all doth but two nations bear,-- The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere."

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"The inglorious arts of peace."

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"Orange bright, Like golden lamps in a green night."

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"And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept the time."

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"He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene."

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"In busy companies of men."

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"Kathleen mavourneen! the grey dawn is breaking, The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill."

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"Roy's wife of Aldivalloch, Wat ye how she cheated me, As I came o'er the braes of Balloch?"

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"Picked up his crumbs."

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"Above the vulgar flight of common souls."

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"Thus far we run before the wind."

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"It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,--being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.""

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"Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach."

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"Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness."

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"On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine-cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old. "It is very small for its age," said Gnathæna."

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"Dorion, ridiculing the description of a tempest in the "Nautilus" of Timotheus, said that he had seen a more formidable storm in a boiling saucepan."

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"I have always believed that success would be the inevitable result if the two services, the army and the navy, had fair play, and if we sent the right man to fill the right place."

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"March to the battle-field, The foe is now before us; Each heart is Freedom's shield, And heaven is shining o'er us."

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"Ho! stand to your glasses steady! 'T is all we have left to prize. A cup to the dead already,-- Hurrah for the next that dies!"

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"True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun."

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"Till the sun grows cold, And the stars are old, And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold."

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"They sang of love, and not of fame; Forgot was Britain's glory; Each heart recall'd a different name, But all sang Annie Lawrie."

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"The bravest are the tenderest,-- The loving are the daring."

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