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As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.

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The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before; The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need Of aid from them-She was the Universe.

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Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylæ!

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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.

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Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylæ!

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Let joy be unconfined.

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The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

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Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.

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For all we know that English people are/ Fed upon beef - I won't say much of beer/ Because 'tis liquor only, and being far/ From this my subject, has no business here;/ We know too, they are very fond of war,/ A pleasure - like all pleasures - rather dear;/ So were the Cretans - from which I infer/ That beef and battle both were owing her

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Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.

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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

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The Niobe of nations! there she stands.

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I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.

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Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.

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He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery.

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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.

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The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.

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Marriage, from love, like vinegar from wine-- A sad, sour sober beverage--by time Is sharpened from its high celestial flavor Down to a very homely household savor.

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This is to be along; this, this is solitude!

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'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.

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