"O Sophonisba! Sophonisba, O!"

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"I care not, Fortune, what you me deny: You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace, You cannot shut the windows of the sky Through which Aurora shows her brightening face; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve: Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave: Of fancy, reason, virtue, naught can me bereave."

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"Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears Her snaky crest."

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"He saw her charming, but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd."

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"Sigh'd and look'd unutterable things."

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"Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?"

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"Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valour, liberty, and virtue Displays distinguish'd merit, is a noble Of Nature's own creating."

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"Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave."

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"For still the world prevail'd, and its dread laugh, Which scarce the firm philosopher can scorn."

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"Base Envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach."

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"A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate Of mighty monarchs."

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"Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot."

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"The meek-ey'd Morn appears, mother of dews."

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"Autumn nodding o'er the yellow plain."

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"When Britain first, at Heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main, This was the charter of her land, And guardian angels sung the strain: Rule, Britannia! Britannia rules the waves! Britons never shall be slaves."

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"Who stemm'd the torrent of a downward age."

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"Forever, Fortune, wilt thou prove An unrelenting foe to love; And when we meet a mutual heart, Come in between and bid us part?"

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"And Mecca saddens at the long delay."

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"From seeming evil still educing good."

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"Shade, unperceiv'd, so softening into shade."

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"A bard here dwelt, more fat than bard beseems."

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"Lady Bab. Then you have an immense pleasure to come."

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"From humble Port to imperial Tokay."

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"There is such a choice of difficulties that I am myself at a loss how to determine."

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"The picture placed the busts between Adds to the thought much strength; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly 's at full length."

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"The flowers of the forest are a' wide awae."

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"Far from mortal cares retreating, Sordid hopes and vain desires, Here, our willing footsteps meeting, Every heart to heaven aspires."

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"Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother."

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"Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!"

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"I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me, in these Christian days, A happy Christian child."

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"Oh that it were my chief delight To do the things I ought! Then let me try with all my might To mind what I am taught."

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"Grammar, which knows how to control even kings."

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"Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man."

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"What the devil did he want in that galley?"

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"We have changed all that."

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"I will maintain it before the whole world."

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"The beautiful eyes of my cash-box."

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"Ah, there are no longer any children!"

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"You are speaking before a man to whom all Naples is known."

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"The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair."

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"I am addressing myself--I am addressing myself to my cap."

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"There are fagots and fagots."

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"The real Amphitryon is the Amphitryon who gives dinners."

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"My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship."

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"Ah that I-- You would have it so, you would have it so; George Dandin, you would have it so! This suits you very nicely, and you are served right; you have precisely what you deserve."

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"Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array,-- Days of absence, I am weary: She I love is far away."

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"All we ask is to be let alone."

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"Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar."

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"Take, O boatman, thrice thy fee,-- Take, I give it willingly; For, invisible to thee, Spirits twain have crossed with me."

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"If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot."

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