"While the sick man has life there is hope."

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"Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events."

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"He is never less at leisure than when at leisure."

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"'T was the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring,--not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there."

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"I 've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled hopes. Now though thy friendly hand has brush'd 'em from me, Yet still they crawl offensive to my eyes: I would have some kind friend to tread upon 'em."

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"A weak invention of the enemy."

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"Within one of her."

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"The will for the deed."

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"Words are but empty thanks."

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"As good be out of the world as out of the fashion."

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"So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her love, And thus the soldier arm'd with resolution Told his soft tale, and was a thriving wooer."

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"Possession is eleven points in the law."

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"Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on."

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"With clink of hammers closing rivets up."

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"This business will never hold water."

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"And the ripe harvest of the new-mown hay Gives it a sweet and wholesome odour."

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"Stolen sweets are best."

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"Losers must have leave to speak."

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"Perish that thought! No, never be it said That Fate itself could awe the soul of Richard. Hence, babbling dreams! you threaten here in vain! Conscience, avaunt! Richard 's himself again! Hark! the shrill trumpet sounds to horse! away! My soul 's in arms, and eager for the fray."

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"The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian dome Outlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it."

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"We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,--scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang."

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"I don't see it."

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"Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they 're ended."

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"Off with his head! so much for Buckingham!"

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"Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry."

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"Flowery oratory he despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended patriots, of whom he said, "All those men have their price.""

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"A drunkard clasp his teeth and not undo 'em, To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em."

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"Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation."

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"Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who."

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"Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens."

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"Washington is in the clear upper sky."

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"Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country."

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"Fearful concatenation of circumstances."

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"I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston and Concord and Lexington and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever."

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"The law: It has honored us; may we honor it."

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"One country, one constitution, one destiny."

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"It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment,--Independence now and Independence forever."

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"America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind."

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"I shall defer my visit to Faneuil Hall, the cradle of American liberty, until its doors shall fly open on golden hinges to lovers of Union as well as lovers of liberty."

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"Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams."

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"When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood."

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"There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession."

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"Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty."

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"Labour in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor."

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"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."

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"When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization."

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"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it."

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"Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote."

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"I have read their platform, and though I think there are some unsound places in it, I can stand upon it pretty well. But I see nothing in it both new and valuable. "What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.""

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"The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people."

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