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Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shoreWhere neither piping bird nor peeping dawnDisturbs the eter...more

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To look back upon the past year, and see how little we have striven and to what small purpose: and how often we have been cowardly and hung back, or t...more

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You deal with me very frankly, and I thank you for it,' said I. 'I will try on my side to be no less honest. I believe these deep duties may lie upon ...more

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Vanity dies hard, in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

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REQUIEMUnder the wide and starry skyDig the grave and let me lie:Glad did I live and gladly die,And I laid me down with a will.This be the verse you g...more

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Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?

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... I deny your right to put words into my mouth.