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• Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.
• Our country is where ever we are well off.
• Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.
• Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.
• Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
• The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let…
• He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.
• Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?
• The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
• Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.
• Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird,…
• How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of…

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