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"Within a stone's throw of it."
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"My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain."
Art
"All is not gold that glitters."
Age
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Money
"Let every man look before he leaps."
Men
"Let every man mind his own business."
Men
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Sin
"Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun."
Military
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Sin
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War
"Let us make hay while the sun shines."
Miscellaneous
"Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind."
Ability
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Freedom
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Liberty
"Little said is soonest mended."
Men
"The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death."
Death
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Freedom
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Liberty
"There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things."
Excellence
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Time
"Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves."
Men
"I was so free with him as not to mince the matter."
Freedom
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Liberty
"Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last."
Time
"Sing away sorrow, cast away care."
Sin
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Sorrow
"Spare your breath to cool your porridge."
Miscellaneous
"Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what thou art."
Art
"Love not what you are, but what you may become."
Love
"'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it."
Ability
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Change
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Darkness
"Be slow of tongue and quick of eye."
Miscellaneous
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