Discord, a sleepless hag who never dies, With Snipe-like nose, and Ferret-glowing eyes, Lean sallow cheeks, long chin with beard supplied, Poor crackling joints, and wither'd parchment hide, As if old Drums, worn out with martial din, Had clubb'd their yellow Heads to form her Skin.


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Men are the dreams of a shadow.
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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
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Learn what you are and be such.
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Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection.
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The present will not long endure.
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Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
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"Presents," I often say, endear Absents."
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If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!
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Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
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A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.
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The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice ...
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Suck, baby! suck! mother's love grows by giving: Drain the sweet founts that only thrive by wast...
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
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I'm not final because I'm right, I'm right because I'm final.
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Half as sober as a judge.
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The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
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Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
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Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
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Neat, not gaudy.
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How bright the sunshine dances in its joy, O'er the still flow of this majestic river!
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It's just burning in the swamp. It's burning fuel that's within the fire lines at this time.
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Where it all will end, knows God.
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Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.
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It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in.
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Der Kaiser of dis Faderland, Und Gott on high all dings commands, We two--ach! Don't you unde...
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Circumstances alter cases.
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Sing away, ay, sing away, Merry little bird Always gayest of the gay, Though a woodland ...
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The buttercups across the field Made sunshine rifts of splendor.
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What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt; Unwritten history! ...
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Autumn Into earth's lap does throw Brown apples gay in a game of play, As the equinoctia...
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Sweet April-time--O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow Of promise, and r...
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Prosperity is a feeble reed. [Fr., C'est un faible roseau que la prosperite.]
JEAN DE SCHELANDRE (USED PSEUDONYM DANIEL D'ANCHERES)
With faces like dead lovers who died true.
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O how grandly cometh Even, Sitting on the mountain summit, Purple-vestured, grave, and silent,...
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Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,-- So rolls the cha...
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Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night, They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight, And...
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God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born t...
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The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our eart...
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To-morrow is, ah, whose?
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A secret at home is like rocks under tide.
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When asked what State he hails from, Our sole reply shall be, He comes from Appomattox A...
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I said to the Nightingale: "Hail, all hail! Pierce with thy trill the dark, Like a glitt...
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I said to the sky-poised Lark: "Hark--hark! Thy note is more loud and free Because there...
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O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as the tim...
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I took the wren's nest;-- Heaven forgive me! Its merry architects so small Had scarcely ...
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I said to the brown, brown thrush: "Hush, hush! Through the wood's full strains I hear T...
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Circumstances alter cases.
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This mission is too important for me.
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I have spotted the tracks of the dust particles.
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The bottom line is, when you look at the well-done scientific studies, there were very few showing t...
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With this kind of injury you have to wait. We'll have a better idea next week.
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The entire world has an interest in us having a peaceful and pleasant experience in World Cup 2007.
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I can’t do without God, my greatest comfort where no human can reach.
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I have been waiting 25 years for this time.
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It has rounded the Sun for just 5 circles, that means, most of its materials are well kept at a pris...
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I have checked the capsule ... now I can call the mission a full success.
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It's a perfect landing...we are jumping and applauding. I can hardly sleep. Nevertheless I had been ...
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Surgically, the failure rate is 2 to 6 percent. The bone is not as dense in all areas of the mouth. ...
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If there is no stimulus of mechanical action on the bone, the surrounding bone will gradually disapp...
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The bridge would have cost about $3,100, because you are working on three teeth.
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We're just saying that those studies don't exist that these products work.
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Our youth we can have but to-day; We may always find time to grow old.
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Surely as cometh the Winter, I know There are Spring violets under the snow.
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[T]he music's pure algebra of enchantment.
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Mistakes remember'd are not faults forgot. - Robert H. Newell (used pseudonym Orpheus C. Kerr)...
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The first step in solving a problem is to tell someone about it
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Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
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Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
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Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
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Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
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I have a great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I con...
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You shouldn't punish others for your own choices
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Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
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Ever since man invented the wheel, he has been the confused victim of the miracles he has wrought.
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An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to.
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Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
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America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
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As a matter of fact, is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't
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A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
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Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?
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A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
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