"Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby."

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"His bark is worse than his bite."

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"Chase brave employment with a naked sword Throughout the world."

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"Ever of thee I 'm fondly dreaming, Thy gentle voice my spirit can cheer."

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"Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream."

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"Yes, life then seem'd one pure delight, Tho' now each spot looks drear; Yet tho' thy smile be lost to sight, To mem'ry thou art dear."

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"Near the lake where drooped the willow, Long time ago!"

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"A song for our banner! The watchword recall Which gave the Republic her station: "United we stand, divided we fall!" It made and preserves us a nation! The union of lakes, the union of lands, The union of States none can sever, The union of hearts, the union of hands, And the flag of our Union forever!"

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"Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I 'll protect it now."

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"His golden locks time hath to silver turned; O time too swift! Oh swiftness never ceasing! His youth 'gainst time and age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain; youth waneth by encreasing."

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"His helmet now shall make a hive for bees, And lovers' songs be turned to holy psalms; A man-at-arms must now serve on his knees, And feed on prayers, which are old age's alms."

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"My merry, merry, merry roundelay Concludes with Cupid's curse: They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse!"

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"When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on."

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"'T is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world."

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"Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire,--conscience."

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"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."

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"Jack shall pipe and Gill shall dance."

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"Shall I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman's fair? Or make pale my cheeks with care, 'Cause another's rosy are? Be she fairer than the day, Or the flowery meads in May, If she be not so to me, What care I how fair she be?"

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"Though I am young, I scorn to flit On the wings of borrowed wit."

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"And I oft have heard defended,-- Little said is soonest mended."

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"And he that gives us in these days New Lords may give us new laws."

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"Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat, And therefore let 's be merry."

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"A place in thy memory, dearest, Is all that I claim; To pause and look back when thou hearest The sound of my name."

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"We read of a certain Roman emperor who built a magnificent palace. In digging the foundation, the workmen discovered a golden sarcophagus ornamented with three circlets, on which were inscribed, "I have expended; I have given; I have kept; I have possessed; I do possess; I have lost; I am punished. What I formerly expended, I have; what I gave away, I have.""

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"Whatever you do, do wisely, and think of the consequences."

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"See how the world rewards its votaries."

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"If the end be well, all is well."

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"Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,-- He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers."

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"Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient."

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"The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception."

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"Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves of laurel and myrtle and rose?"

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"I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor."

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"After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth."

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"It is a condition which confronts us--not a theory."

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"Party honesty is party expediency."

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"Then here 's to the oak, the brave old oak, Who stands in his pride alone! And still flourish he a hale green tree When a hundred years are gone!"

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"A song to the oak, the brave old oak, Who hath ruled in the greenwood long!"

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"Oh, leave the gay and festive scenes, The halls of dazzling light."

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"In men this blunder still you find,-- All think their little set mankind."

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"To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!"

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"Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs."

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"Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes."

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"Why thus longing, thus forever sighing For the far-off, unattain'd, and dim, While the beautiful all round thee lying Offers up its low, perpetual hymn?"

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"Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are."

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"While Thee I seek, protecting Power, Be my vain wishes stilled; And may this consecrated hour With better hopes be filled."

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"Genteel in personage, Conduct, and equipage; Noble by heritage, Generous and free."

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"His cogitative faculties immersed In cogibundity of cogitation."

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"Of all the girls that are so smart, There 's none like pretty Sally."

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"Let the singing singers With vocal voices, most vociferous, In sweet vociferation out-vociferize Even sound itself."

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"Go call a coach, and let a coach be called; And let the man who calleth be the caller; And in his calling let him nothing call But "Coach! Coach! Coach! Oh for a coach, ye gods!""

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