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• But sorrow return'd with the dawning of morn, And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away.
  -- Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) -- The Soldier's Dream...
• The sentinel stars set their watch in the sky.
  -- Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) -- The Soldier's Dream...
• But there 's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- Love's Young Dream...
• The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
  -- Thomas Jefferso...
• Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep
  Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep....
• Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
  Samuel Johnson ['Boswell's Life of', 1777]...
• Few, few shall part where many meet! The snow shall be their winding-sheet, And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.
  -- Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) -- Hohenlinde...