"A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone."

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"Little strokes fell great oaks."

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"It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright."

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"Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore."

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"Plough deep while sluggards sleep."

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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

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"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."

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"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."

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"We are a kind of posterity in respect to them."

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"Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter."

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"You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours."

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"He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle."

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"Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years."

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"Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."

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"There never was a good war or a bad peace."

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"Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug."

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"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."

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"The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants."

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"It is only the dead who do not return."

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"Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last."

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"Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old."

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"[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate."

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"Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave."

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"There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen, nor never shall be."

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"Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues."

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"If there be no nobility of descent, all the more indispensable is it that there should be nobility of ascent,--a character in them that bear rule so fine and high and pure that as men come within the circle of its influence they involuntarily pay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, the royalty of virtue."

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"We have exchanged the Washingtonian dignity for the Jeffersonian simplicity, which was in truth only another name for the Jacksonian vulgarity."

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"I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good; But sure I think that I can drink With him that wears a hood."

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"Back and side go bare, go bare, Both foot and hand go cold; But, belly, God send thee good ale enough, Whether it be new or old."

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"Rivers are highways that move on, and bear us whither we wish to go."

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"Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed."

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"If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed."

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"For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?"

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"The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first."

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"What a chimera, then, is man! what a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! A judge of all things, feeble worm of the earth, depositary of the truth, cloaca of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe!"

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"It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause."

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"We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart."

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"Thus we never live, but we hope to live; and always disposing ourselves to be happy, it is inevitable that we never become so."

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"Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just."

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"The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free!"

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"I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more."

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"I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue below, And silence wheresoe'er I go."

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"Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream Gently,--as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream."

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"Imitation is the sincerest flattery."

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"We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade."

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"'T was whisper'd in heaven, 't was mutter'd in hell, And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell; On the confines of earth 't was permitted to rest, And the depths of the ocean its presence confess'd."

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"Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame."

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"But, spite of all the criticising elves, Those who would make us feel--must feel themselves."

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"Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still."

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"Apt alliteration 's artful aid."

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