"Three merry boys, and three merry boys, And three merry boys are we, As ever did sing in a hempen string Under the gallows-tree."

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"Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that 's gone; Violets plucked, the sweetest rain Makes not fresh nor grow again."

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"Let us do or die."

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"He went away with a flea in 's ear."

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"O woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!"

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"I find the medicine worse than the malady."

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"Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man Commands all light, all influence, all fate. Nothing to him falls early, or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still."

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"Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves."

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"Diamond cut diamond."

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"Moche Crye and no Wull."

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"Comparisons are odious."

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"I saw two clouds at morning Tinged by the rising sun, And in the dawn they floated on And mingled into one."

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"Rise up, rise up, Xarifa! lay your golden cushion down; Rise up! come to the window, and gaze with all the town."

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"Low stir of leaves and dip of oars And lapsing waves on quiet shores."

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"So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!"

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"Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary!""

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"Making their lives a prayer."

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"The hope of all who suffer, The dread of all who wrong."

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"For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!"

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"I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care."

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"And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man."

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"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!""

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"In ev'ry age and clime we see Two of a trade can never agree."

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"Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it."

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"Adieu, she cried, and waved her lily hand."

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"Brother, brother! we are both in the wrong."

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"Over the hills and far away."

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"'T was when the sea was roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclin'd."

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"While there is life there 's hope, he cried."

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"'T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts."

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"That raven on yon left-hand oak (Curse on his ill-betiding croak!) Bodes me no good."

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"If the heart of a man is depress'd with cares, The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears."

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"Remote from cities liv'd a swain, Unvex'd with all the cares of gain; His head was silver'd o'er with age, And long experience made him sage."

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"Is there no hope? the sick man said; The silent doctor shook his head."

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"And when a lady 's in the case, You know all other things give place."

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"The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets."

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"How happy could I be with either, Were t' other dear charmer away!"

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"Where yet was ever found a mother Who 'd give her booby for another?"

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"No author ever spar'd a brother."

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"Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view."

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"All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd."

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"Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consum'd the midnight oil?"

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"The charge is prepar'd, the lawyers are met, The judges all ranged,--a terrible show!"

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"Those who in quarrels interpose Must often wipe a bloody nose."

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"So comes a reckoning when the banquet 's o'er,-- The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more."

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"From wine what sudden friendship springs!"

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"Give me, kind Heaven, a private station, A mind serene for contemplation: Title and profit I resign; The post of honour shall be mine."

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"Than catch and hold while I may, fast binde, fast finde."

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"Look ere ye leape."

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"The tide tarrieth no man."

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