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• Oh, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme!
  Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull...
• Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today. -- John Dryde
• Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his ow
  He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day....
• A mind not to be chang'd by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
  What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?...
• I am not, nor have ever been, a lawyer.
• I took thee for thy better. Take thy fortune.
• FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life.
  Folly! although Erasmus praised thee once In a thick volume, and all authors known, If not thy glory yet thy power have shown, Deign to take homage from thy son who hunts Through all thy maze his brothers, fool and dunce, To mend their lives and to sustain his own, However feebly be his arrows thrown, Howe'er each hide the flying weapons blunts....
• Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st Live well
  how long or short permit to heaven....
• I am thy father's spirit, Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confin'd to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purg'd away.
  But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand an end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine...