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Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.



Nothing is more the child of art than a garden



Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire! Of all his guilt let him be shriven, And smooth his path from earth to heaven!



A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.



Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.



And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred.



Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome.



Vengeance, deep-brooding other the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the rising tear to flow.



Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.



One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.



Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.



Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.



Oh what a tangled web we weave,when first we practice to deceive!



Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.








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