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"We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d'or or d'argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms."

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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.

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Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's.

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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

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Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.

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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.

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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.

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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despi…

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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with ve…

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