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Pasajes populares
Página 195 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not : Let all the ends, thou aim'st at, be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's ; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr.
Página 177 - To the West, to the West, to the land of the free, Where the mighty Missouri rolls down to the sea; Where a man is a man if he's willing to toil, And the humblest may gather the fruits of the soil; Where children are blessings, and he who hath most Has aid for his fortune and riches to boast.
Página 88 - THE world is a bundle of hay, Mankind are the asses who pull; Each tugs it a different way, And the greatest of all is John Bull.
Página 142 - Pleasures are like poppies spread. You seize the flower — the bloom is fled ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then lost for ever.
Página 159 - Is there for honest Poverty That hings his head, an' a' that; The coward slave — we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that! For a' that, an' a
Página 209 - Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad.' ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in, stones, and good in every thing.
Página 83 - ... truly try the issue joined between Our Sovereign Lord the King and the prisoner at the bar, and would a true verdict give according to the evidence, so help him God!
Página 206 - OF all the passions that possess mankind, The love of novelty rules most the mind ; In search of this, from realm to realm we roam, Our fleets come fraught with every folly home...
Página 28 - Friendship ! mysterious cement of the soul ! Sweet'ner of life ! and solder of society ! I owe thee much.
Página 46 - Of all the passions that possess mankind, The love of novelty rules most the mind.' 5 § 12. It may be well to repeat, before closing this chapter, an observation hitherto made in regard to the sum total of any one individual's happiness as compared with his unhappiness. The misery and wretchedness of some lives makes it seem as if the aggregate of pain in the lives of a portion of...