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Let others hail the rising sun:
I bow to that whose course is run.

— David Garrick

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Their cause I plead,—plead it in heart and mind;
A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.

Heart of oak are our ships,
Heart of oak are our men;
We always are ready.

This scholar, rake, Christian, dupe, gamester, and poet.

Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil sends us cooks.

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Matter gave birth to a passion that has no equal, which proceeded from something contrary to nature. Then there arises a disturbance in its whole body.

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

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