We may talk as we please of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles in fields of d'or or d'argent, but if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in the field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms
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Though you be absent here, I needs must say The trees as beauteous are, and flowers as gay, As ever they were wont to be.Abraham Cowley
Words that weep and tears that speak.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
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No matter what the form of the government, the liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have themselves made.
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