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• Go boldly forth, my simple lay, Whose accents flow with artless ease, Like orient pearls at random strung.
  -- Sir William Jones (1746-1794) -- A Persian Song of Hafiz...
• On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled
  So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep....
• How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes bless'd!
  -- William Collins (1720-1756) -- Ode written in the year 1746...
• There is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all 'Tom Jones.
  ' -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)...
• It is better to limp all the way to heaven, than not to get there at all. -- William Sunday
• All governments are more or less combinations against the people.
  . .and as rulers have no more virtue than the ruled....
• All that glisters is not gold. Gilded tombs do worms enfold. -- William Shakespeare
• Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
  -- Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773) -- Letter, March 10, 1746...
• Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears!
  What ugly sights of death within mine eyes! Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks, Ten thousand men that fishes gnawed upon, Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea...