"It is impossible to please all the world and one's father."

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"The sign brings customers."

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"Her suffering ended with the day, Yet lived she at its close, And breathed the long, long night away In statue-like repose."

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"But when the sun in all his state Illumed the eastern skies, She passed through Glory's morning-gate, And walked in Paradise."

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"By the glare of false science betray'd, That leads to bewilder, and dazzles to blind."

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"Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime."

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"At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, When naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, And naught but the nightingale's song in the grove."

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"Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down, Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrewn, Fast by a brook or fountain's murmuring wave; And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave!"

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"Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free; Patient of toil, serene amidst alarms; Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms."

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"And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb."

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"But when shall spring visit the mouldering urn? Oh when shall it dawn on the night of the grave?"

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"Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?"

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"He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man."

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"So Britain's monarch once uncovered sat, While Bradshaw bullied in a broad-brimmed hat."

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"What 's not devoured by Time's devouring hand? Where 's Troy, and where 's the Maypole in the Strand?"

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"But Titus said, with his uncommon sense, When the Exclusion Bill was in suspense: "I hear a lion in the lobby roar; Say, Mr. Speaker, shall we shut the door And keep him there, or shall we let him in To try if we can turn him out again?""

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"Henceforth the majesty of God revere; Fear Him, and you have nothing else to fear."

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"On thy fair bosom, silver lake, The wild swan spreads his snowy sail, And round his breast the ripples break As down he bears before the gale."

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"The very mudsills of society. . . . We call them slaves. . . . But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere; it is eternal."

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"Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed."

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"Behold how brightly breaks the morning! Though bleak our lot, our hearts are warm."

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"Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark."

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"Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh, let thy grace supply!"

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"Beyond this vale of tears There is a life above, Unmeasured by the flight of years; And all that life is love."

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"Night is the time to weep, To wet with unseen tears Those graves of memory where sleep The joys of other years."

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"Who that hath ever been Could bear to be no more? Yet who would tread again the scene He trod through life before?"

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"Gashed with honourable scars, Low in Glory's lap they lie; Though they fell, they fell like stars, Streaming splendour through the sky."

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"Bliss in possession will not last; Remembered joys are never past; At once the fountain, stream, and sea, They were, they are, they yet shall be."

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"Once, in the flight of ages past, There lived a man."

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"'T is not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die."

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"Counts his sure gains, and hurries back for more."

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"When the good man yields his breath (For the good man never dies)."

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"Return unto thy rest, my soul, From all the wanderings of thy thought, From sickness unto death made whole, Safe through a thousand perils brought."

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"Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home."

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"If God hath made this world so fair, Where sin and death abound, How beautiful beyond compare Will paradise be found!"

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"Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive."

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"Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye When none but God is near."

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"Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed,-- The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast."

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"Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past."

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"Friend after friend departs; Who hath not lost a friend? There is no union here of hearts That finds not here an end."

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"Distinct as the billows, yet one as the sea."

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"Nor sink those stars in empty night: They hide themselves in heaven's own light."

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"One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning."

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"Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul, An' risen up earth's greatest nation."

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"From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature."

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"Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified."

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"Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote."

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"They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak. . . . . . They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three."

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"Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face."

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"But John P. Robinson, he Sez they did n't know everythin' down in Judee."

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