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Go, little Book! From this my solitude
I cast thee on the Waters,—go thy ways:
And if, as I believe, thy vein be good,
The World will find thee after many days.
Be it with thee according to thy worth:
Go, little Book; in faith I send thee forth.

— Robert Southey

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Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the State.

Cold is thy heart and as frozen as Charity!

Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
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