"Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the field of air."

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"Every man is like the company he is wont to keep."

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"There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change."

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"Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife."

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"Woman is woman's natural ally."

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"Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them."

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"I know, indeed, the evil of that I purpose; but my inclination gets the better of my judgment."

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"The nobly born must nobly meet his fate."

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"Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future."

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"Waste not fresh tears over old griefs."

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"Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it."

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"The gifts of a bad man bring no good with them."

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"Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame."

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"Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven."

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"Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks."

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"Thou didst bring me forth for all the Greeks in common, not for thyself alone."

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"Slight not what 's near through aiming at what 's far."

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"Second thoughts are ever wiser."

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"Slowly but surely withal moveth the might of the gods."

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"A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing."

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"The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children."

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"Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid."

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"A bad beginning makes a bad ending."

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"The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate."

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"Who knows but life be that which men call death, And death what men call life?"

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"When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them."

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"Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world."

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"Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain."

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"And the star-spangled banner, oh long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!"

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"Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must when our cause it is just, And this be our motto, "In God is our trust!" And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave."

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"For right is right, since God is God, And right the day must win; To doubt would be disloyalty, To falter would be sin."

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"Labour itself is but a sorrowful song, The protest of the weak against the strong."

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"The last link is broken That bound me to thee, And the words thou hast spoken Have render'd me free."

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"The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed."

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"I had a hat. It was not all a hat,-- Part of the brim was gone: Yet still I wore it on."

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"Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod: They have left unstained what there they found,-- Freedom to worship God."

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"What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine, The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine."

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"Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north-wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!"

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"Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done."

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"The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead."

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"In the busy haunts of men."

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"Through the laburnum's dropping gold Rose the light shaft of Orient mould, And Europe's violets, faintly sweet, Purpled the mossbeds at its feet."

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"Alas for love, if thou wert all, And naught beyond, O Earth!"

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"I have looked on the hills of the stormy North, And the larch has hung his tassels forth."

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"Calm on the bosom of thy God, Fair spirit, rest thee now!"

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"The stately homes of England,-- How beautiful they stand, Amid their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land!"

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"They grew in beauty side by side, They filled one home with glee: Their graves are severed far and wide By mount and stream and sea."

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"Oh, call my brother back to me! I cannot play alone: The summer comes with flower and bee,-- Where is my brother gone?"

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"Needle in a bottle of hay."

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"Such graves as his are pilgrim shrines, Shrines to no code or creed confined,-- The Delphian vales, the Palestines, The Meccas of the mind."

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