"But when ill indeed, E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed."

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"And what 's impossible can't be, And never, never comes to pass."

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"'T is a very fine thing to be father-in-law To a very magnificent three-tailed Bashaw!"

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"Like two single gentlemen rolled into one."

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"Her air, her manners, all who saw admir'd; Courteous though coy, and gentle though retir'd; The joy of youth and health her eyes display'd, And ease of heart her every look convey'd."

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"'T was good advice, and meant, my son, Be good."

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"Cut and come again."

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"Oh, rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain; Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun."

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"In this fool's paradise he drank delight."

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"Time has touched me gently in his race, And left no odious furrows in my face."

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"But 't was a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide."

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"And took for truth the test of ridicule."

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"To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent."

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"In idle wishes fools supinely stay; Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way."

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"Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved."

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"He tried the luxury of doing good."

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"Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food."

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"Necessity, the mother of invention."

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"'T was for the good of my country that I should be abroad."

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"I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly."

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"Kite. Oh, a mighty large bed! bigger by half than the great bed at Ware: ten thousand people may lie in it together, and never feel one another."

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"The mother said to her daughter, "Daughter, bid thy daughter tell her daughter that her daughter's daughter hath a daughter.""

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"The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords If when the soul unto the lines accords."

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"Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?"

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"Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, 'T is angels' music."

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"Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie."

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"The offender never pardons."

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"Bibles laid open, millions of surprises."

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"Help thyself, and God will help thee."

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"Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him."

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"Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand."

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"Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like seasoned timber, never gives."

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"To a close-shorn sheep God gives wind by measure."

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"A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws Makes that and th' action fine."

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"A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the two."

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"The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken."

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"The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth Pa-ti-ence."

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"Hell is full of good meanings and wishings."

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"Like summer friends, Flies of estate and sunneshine."

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"Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky."

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"Do well and right, and let the world sink."

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"It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle."

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"After death the doctor."

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"No sooner is a temple built to God, but the Devil builds a chapel hard by."

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"A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice."

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"The lion is not so fierce as they paint him."

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"Words are women, deeds are men."

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"To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise."

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"If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast."

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"God's mill grinds slow, but sure."

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