"But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word; And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be."

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"There is an evening twilight of the heart, When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest."

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"This bank-note world."

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"One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die."

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"They love their land because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why; Would shake hands with a king upon his throne, And think it kindness to his Majesty."

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"Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise."

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"Strike--for your altars and your fires! Strike--for the green graves of your sires! God, and your native land!"

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"Lord Stafford mines for coal and salt, The Duke of Norfolk deals in malt, The Douglas in red herrings."

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"Better trust all, and be deceived, And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart, that if believed Had blessed one's life with true believing."

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"A sacred burden is this life ye bear: Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly. Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin, But onward, upward, till the goal ye win."

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"Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order."

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"The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men is the vicissitude of sects and religions."

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"Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."

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"Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books."

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"My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads."

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"Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New."

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"The world 's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span."

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"It [Poesy] was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind."

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"Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb."

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"Like the strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones."

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"For the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate."

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"It is yet a higher speech of his than the other, "It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.""

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"Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new."

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"There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat in the pan;" which is, when that which a man says to another, he lays it as if another had said it to him."

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"If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she is blind, she is not invisible."

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"Cosmus, Duke of Florence, was wont to say of perfidious friends, that "We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.""

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"There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man's own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health."

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"Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns on water, or but writes in dust."

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"When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires. This is not caused by any natural defect, but first for want of election, when you, having a large and fruitful mind, should not so much labour what to speak as to find what to leave unspoken. Rich soils are often to be weeded."

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"It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are; but howsoever it be between nations, certainly it is so between man and man."

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"The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall."

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"I had rather believe all the fables in the legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind."

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"States as great engines move slowly."

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"In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point of cunning to borrow the name of the world; as to say, "The world says," or "There is a speech abroad.""

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"It was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.""

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"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other."

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"Men in great place are thrice servants,--servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business."

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"Virtue is like a rich stone,--best plain set."

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"What then remains but that we still should cry For being born, and, being born, to die?"

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"It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less."

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"Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man."

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""Antiquitas sæculi juventus mundi." These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves."

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"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel."

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"Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone.""

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"Chiefly the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands."

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"And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air."

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"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."

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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

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"Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled. Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and again; and when the hill stood still he was never a whit abashed, but said, "If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.""

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"Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things,--old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

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