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As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?

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No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.

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Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.

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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

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Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.

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So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.

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Take eloquence and wring its neck.

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At times I think and at times I am.

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Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

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A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

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Love is being stupid together.

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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

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God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

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The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

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A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

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My days are gone a-wandering.

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