Unattributed Author quote: "Cricket is a game that owes much of its unique appeal to the fact that it should be played not only within its Laws but also within the Spirit of the Game."

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
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. . . his master was in a manner always in a wrong Boxe and building castels in the ayre or catchin...
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Why should (need) a man die who has sage in his garden? [Lat., Cur moriatur homo, cui salvia cresc...
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Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.
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Laurel crowned Horatius True, how true the saying, Swift as wind flies over us Time devo...
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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
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The White Plume of Navarre.
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Unless by the lawful judgment of their peers. [Lat., Nisi per legale judicum parum suorum.]
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He who flies at the right time can fight again. [Lat., Celuy qui fuit bonne heure Peut combatt...
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Neither ridiculous shriekings for revenge by French chauvinists, nor the Englishmen's gnashing of t...
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Either this or upon this. (Either bring this back or be brought back upon it.)
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Oft he that doth abide Is cause of his own paine, But he that flieth in good tide Perhap...
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We will fight them in the air, land and sea, and their aggression will achieve nothing but failure.
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The virtue of her lively looks Excels the precious stone; I wish to have none other books ...
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It is a thing very displeasing to me when the hen speaks and the cock is silent. [Fr., C'est chos...
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What is lighter than the wind? A feather. What is lighter than a feather? Fire. What lighter...
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Man was made when Nature was but an apprentice, but woman when she was a skilful mistress of her ar...
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Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will? For if she...
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I think Nature hath lost the mould Where she her shape did take; Or else I doubt if Nature cou...
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A little house well fill'd, a little land well till'd, and a little wife well will'd, are great ric...
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There are four kinds of people, three of which are to be avoided and the fourth cultivated: those ...
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Yonkers that have hearts of oak at fourscore yeares.
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A government of laws, and not of men.
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Oh, we are weary pilgrims; to this wilderness we bring A Church without a bishop, a State without ...
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Despotism tempered by assassination, that is our Magna Carta. [Fr., Le despotisme tempere par l'as...
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I believe that there is no God, but that matter is God and God is matter; and that it is no matter ...
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A niche in the temple of Fame.
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Your fame shall (spite of proverbs) make it plain To write in water's not to write in vain.
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John Lee is dead, that good old man,-- We ne'er shall see him more: He used to wear an old dra...
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My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, alway...
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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insur...
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O, Columbia, the gem of the ocean, The home of the brave and the free, The shrine of each patr...
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Asylum of the oppressed of every nation.
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If cold December gave you birth, The month of snow and ice and mirth, Place on you hand a Turq...
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Every investigation which is guided by principles of nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on grat...
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Great pity were it if this beneficence of Providence should be marr'd in the ordering, so as to jus...
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Happy am I; from care I'm free! Why aren't they all contented like me?
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Odd instances of strange coincidence.
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The children in Holland take pleasure in making What the children in England take pleasure in brea...
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Gently running made sweet music with the enameled stones and seemed to give a gentle kiss to every ...
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Solid men of Boston, make no long orations; Solid men of Boston, drink no long potations; Soli...
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Baseball is a game between two teams of nine players each, under direction of a manager, played on ...
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1a \'a\ n, pl a's or as \'az\ often cap, often attrib (bef. 12c) 1 a : the 1st letter of the Englis...
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I call the Living--I mourn the Dead-- I break the Lightning.
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The first of April, some do say Is set apart for All Fools' day; But why the people call it so...
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She who from April dates her years, Diamonds should wear, lest bitter tears For vain repentanc...
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If you will do some deed before you die, Remember not this caravan of death, But have belief t...
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Life's but a span, or a tale, or a word, That in a trice, or suddaine, is rehearsed.
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Life is an uncharted ocean. The cautious mariner must needs take Many soundings ere he conduct his...
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Live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse.
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Let us live then, and be glad While young life's before us After youthful pastime had, A...
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Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.
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Death's pale flag advanced in his cheeks.
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Go thou, deceased, to this earth which is a mother, and spacious and kind. May her touch be soft l...
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In the day, do the day's work.
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The tongue of a man is his sword and effective speech is stronger than all fighting.
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When I have been indulging this thought I have, in imagination, seen the Britons of some future cen...
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Never a fishermen need there be If fishes could hear as well as see.
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The February born will find Sincerity and peace of mind; Freedom from passion and from care, ...
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The service was of great array, That they were served with that day. Thus they ate, and made t...
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Transcendental moonshine.
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Who first beholds the light of day In Spring's sweet flowery month of May And wears an Emerald...
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Who in this world of ours their eyes In March first open shall be wise; In days of peril firm ...
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Here's to France, the moon whose magic rays move the tides of the world.
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A thousand leagues of ocean, a company of kings, You came across the watching world to show how he...
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If one has no better method of enticement to offer, the cordial agreement seems to us to be the bes...
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A cat may look like a king.
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Either Zeus came to earth to shew his form to thee, Phidias, or thou to heaven hast gone the god t...
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Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every serious crisis is invariably wrong.
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This is the best world, that we live in, To lend and to spend and to give in: But to borrow, o...
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A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger; but a serving-man's wife may starve for hunger.
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To shoot at crows is powder flung away.
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Only last night he felt deadly sick, and, after a great deal of pain, two black crows flew out of h...
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'Tis bad enough in man or woman To steal a goose from off a common; But surely he's without ex...
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She was and is (what can there more be said?) On earth the first, in heaven the second maid.
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There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it ill behov...
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Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
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Doubtless there are men of great parts that are guilty of downright bashfulness, that by a strange ...
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The asses' bridge. [Lat., Pons Asinorum.]
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A blind bargain.
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A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in t...
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The cattle upon a thousand hills.
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If the end be well, all will be well. [Lat., Si finis bonus est, totum bonum erit.]
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It ain't over till it's over.
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The man that weds for greedy wealth, He goes a fishing fair, But often times he gets a frog, ...
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To kiss the rod.
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But we that have but span-long life, The thicker must lay on the pleasure; And since time will...
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The weakest goeth to the wall.
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Six hours in sleep is enough for youth and age. Perhaps seven for the lazy, but we allow eight to ...
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Drinking will make a man quaff, Quaffing will make a man sing, Singing will make a man laugh, ...
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And I wish his soul in heaven may dwell, Who first invented this leathern bottel!
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When treading London's well-known ground If e'er I feel my spirits tire, I haul my sail, look ...
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The Channel is that silver strip of sea which severs merry England from the tardy realms of Europe.
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Those pigmy tribes of Panton street, Those hardy blades, those hearts of oak, Obedient to a ty...
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Jesus Christ is risen to-day, Our triumphant holy day; Who did once upon the cross Suffe...
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Era of good feeling.
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He who labours, prays. [Lat., Qui laborat, orat.]
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Labour in vain; or coals to Newcastle.
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Oh, tell me whence Love cometh! Love comes uncall'd, unsent. Oh, tell me where Love goeth! ...
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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when a man has only one idea.
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The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must b...
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Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat. (Death levels sceptre and the law.)
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Tell me, shepherds, have you seen My Flora pass this way? In shape and feature Beauty's queen,...
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When all else fails, duck. It's not practical, but it can be momentarily comforting.
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Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, The very Life of Lif...
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The rise of every man he loved to trace, Up to the very pod O! And, in baboons, our parent rac...
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This picture, plac'd the busts between Gives Satire all its strength; Wisdom and Wit are littl...
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The diamond's virtues well might grace The epigram, and both excel In brilliancy in smallest s...
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Acon his right, Leonilla her left eye Doth want; yet each in form, the gods out-vie. Sweet boy...
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All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights.
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Huzzaed out of my seven senses.
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Thee is a skeleton on every house.
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Let the "Tribune" put all this in its pipe and smoke it.
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To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly. [Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.]
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Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.
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Say, Bacchus, why so placid? What can there be In commune held by Pallas and by thee? Her ple...
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I, Phoebus, sang those songs that gained so much renown I, Phoebus, sang them; Homer only wrote th...
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The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the streets, on the roads, and in the markets, instructs t...
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The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in its proverbs.
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I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth, Of the seven great ancient sages so...
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Sacred to the memory of printing, the art preservative of all arts. This was first invented about ...
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I pray the prayer the Easterners do, May the peace of Allah abide with you; Wherever you stay,...
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O God, if in the day of battle I forget Thee, do not Thou forget me.
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Doubt not but God who sits on high, Thy secret prayers can hear; When a dead wall thus cunning...
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Un gros serpent mordit Aurele. Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva? Qu' Aurele en mourut? Bagatelle!...
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Hier aupres de Charenton Un serpent morait Jean Freron, Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva? Ce...
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Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; February eight-and-twenty all alone, ...
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Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one Exce...
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Fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth, Thirty days to each affix; Every other thirty-one, E...
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Sublimity is the echo of a noble mind.
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As drifting logs of wood may haply meet On ocean's waters surging to and fro, And having met, ...
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Use three Physicians, Still-first Dr. Quiet, Next Dr. Merry-man And Dr. Dyet.
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Who comes with Summer to this earth And owes to June her day of birth, With ring of Agate on h...
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The glowing Ruby should adorn Those who in warm July are born, Then will they be exempt and fr...
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A maiden born when Autumn leaves Are rustling in September's breeze, A Sapphire on her brow sh...
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October's child is born for woe, And life's vicissitudes must know; But lay on Opal on her bre...
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By her who in this month is born, No gems save Garnets should be worn; They will insure her co...
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Wear a Sardonyx or for thee No conjugal felicity. The August-born without this stone 'Ti...
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Who first comes to this world below With drear November's fog and snow Should prize the Topaz'...
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Man only,--rash, refined, presumptuous Man-- Starts from his rank, and mars Creation's plan! B...
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From the lone shielding on the misty island Mountains divide us, and the waste of seas-- But s...
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The deep slumber of a decided opinion.
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Be aristocracy the only joy: Let commerce perish--let the world expire.
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"There beauty half her glory veils, In cabs, those gondolas on wheels."
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The medicine chest of the soul.
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Food for the soul. [Lat., Nutrimentum spiritus.]
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When law can stop the blades of grass from growing as they grow; And when the leaves in Summer-tim...
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The grave's the market place.
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Our life's a flying shadow, God the pole, The needle pointing to Him is our soul.
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A blockhead, bit by fleas, put out the light, And chuckling cried, "Now you can't see to bite."
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But death is sure to kill all he can get And all is fish with him that comes to net.
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One that is neither flesh not fish.
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A lofty cane, a sword with silver hilt, A ring, two watches, and a snuff box gilt.
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Free soil, free men, free speech, Fremont.
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A man is either free or he is not.
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Few of the university pen plaies well, they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Meta...
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This Booke When Brasse and Marble fade, shall make thee looke Fresh to all Ages.
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This ae nighte, this ae nighte Every nighte and all; Fire and sleete, and candle lighte ...
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Terrible he rode alone, With his yemen sword for aid; Ornament it carried none But the n...
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The king of France with twenty thousand men Went up the hill, and then came down again: The ki...
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An Austrian army awfully arrayed.
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As I saw fair Chloris walk alone, The feather'd snow came softly down, As Jove, descending fro...
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Sancta Maria ad Nives.
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The Natural Clock-work by the might One Wound up at first, and ever since have gone.
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Our life's a flying shadow, God's the pole, The index pointing at Him is our soul; Death the h...
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Live ye, he says, I flee.
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If o'er the dial glides a shade, redeem The time for lo! it passes like a dream; But if 'tis ...
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Give God thy heart, thy service, and thy gold; The day wears on, and time is waxing old. - Un...
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Begone about your business.
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As the long hours do pass away, So doth the life of man decay.
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Amende to-day and slack not, Deythe cometh and warneth not, Tyme passeth and speketh not.
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The cordial agreement which exists between the governments of France and Great Britain. [Fr., La ...
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Thus the fable tells us, that the wren mounted as high as the eagle, by getting upon his back.
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And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.
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He speaketh to me the words of men. I listen to him and I repeat to him the words of gods.
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That blessed word Mesopotamia.
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"Be bold!" first gate; "Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold," second gate; "Be not too bold!" ...
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Some say "to-morrow" never comes, A saying oft thought right; But if to-morrow never came, ...
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Our country, however bounded.
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Here's to Great Britain, the sun that gives light to all nations of the world.
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Our common Father and Deliverer, to whose prudence, wisdom and valour we owe our Peace, Liberty and...
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Every countenance seeked to say, "Long live George Washington, the Father of the People."
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The defender of his country--the founder of liberty, The friend of man, History and tradition ...
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Truly some men there be That live always in great horrour, And say it goeth by destiny T...
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Dollar Diplomacy.
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Nation of shopkeepers.
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Tom he was a piper's son, He learned to play when he was young; Bug all the tune that he could...
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But Bellenden we needs must praise, Who as down the stairs she jumps Sings o'er the hill and f...
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How bething the, gentliman, How Adam dalf, and Eve span.
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Medicine for the soul.
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Greensleeves was all my joy, Greensleeves was my delight, Greensleeves was my heart of gold, ...
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I seek for one as fair and gay, But find none to remind me, How blest the hours pass'd away ...
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It's love, it's love that makes the world go round.
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The silente man still suffers wrong.
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The woman that deliberates is lost.
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Snug as a bug in a rug.
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The man that heweth over high, Some chip falleth in his eye.
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Wode has erys, felde has sigt.
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Mind your P's and Q's.
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The physician heals, Nature makes well. [Lat., Medicus curat, Natura sanat morbus.]
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Cricket is a game that owes much of its unique appeal to the fact that it should be played not only within its Laws but also within the Spirit of the Game.

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