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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

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What if you slept And what if In your sleep You dreamed And what if In your dream You went to heaven And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower And what if When you awoke You had that flower in you hand Ah, what then?

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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

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Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.

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If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

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Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.

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If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.

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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

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Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.

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He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

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He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

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my gentle-hearted Charles, to whom No sound is dissonant which tells of Life.

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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

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Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom.

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O! the one Life within us and abroad,

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Five miles meandering with mazy motion,Through dale the sacred river ran,Then reached the caverns measureless to man,And sank the tumult to a lifeless oceanAnd 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from farAncestral voices prophesying war

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O Lady! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does Nature live:

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He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel.

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I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of toleration.

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