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He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne'er get out.

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The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and manners; wiser than after ages.

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The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.

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Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands.

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England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?

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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

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Struggling in my father's hands, Striving against my swaddling bands, Bound and weary, I thought best To sulk upon my mother's breast.

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The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

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He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear.

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Opposition is true friendship.

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I am going to that country which I have all my life wished to see.

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The gulfing whale was like a dot in the spell. Yet look upon it, and 'twould size and swell To its huge self, and the minutest fish Would pass the very hardest gazer's wish, And show his little eye's anatomy.

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None but blockheads copy each other.

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Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau! Mock on, mock on: 'Tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. And every sand becomes a gem Reflected in the beams divine; Blown back they blind the mocking eye, But still in Israel's paths they shine. The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.

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The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.

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Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

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When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

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Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire.

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Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction? Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile?

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