ire.
"My beautiful flowers, my lovely flowers."--Richter.
"James, take good care of the horse."--Winfield Scott.
"Many things are becoming clearer to me."--Schiller.
"I feel the daisies growing over me."--John Keats.
"What, is there no bribing death?"--Cardinal Beaufort.
"Taking a leap in the dark. O, mystery."--Thomas Paine.
"There is not a drop of blood on my hands."'--Frederick V.
"I am taking a fearful leap in the dark."--Thomas Hobbes.
"Don't let that awkward squad fire over my grave."--Burns.
"Here, veteran, if you think it right, strike."--Cicero.
"My days are past as a shadow that returns not."--R. Hooker.
"I thought that dying had been more difficult,"--Louis XIV.
"O Lord, forgive me specially my sins of omission."--Usher.
"Let me die to the sounds of delicious music."--Mirabeau.
"It is small, very small," alluding to her neck.--Anna Boleyn.
"Let me hear those notes so long my solace and delight."--Mozart.
"We are as near heaven by sea as by land,"--Sir Humphrey Gilbert.
"I do not sleep. I wish to meet death awake."--Maria Theresa.
"I resign my soul to God; my daughter to my country."--Jefferson.
TOASTS AND SENTIMENTS
Merit to gain a heart, and sense to keep it.
Money to him that has spirit to use it.
More friends and less need of them.
May those who deceive us be always deceived.
May the sword of justice be swayed by the hand of mercy.
May the brow of the brave never want a wreath of laurel.
May we be slaves to nothing but our duty, and friends to nothing but
real merit.
May he that turns his back on his friend, fall into the hands of his
enemy.
May honor be the commander when love takes the field.
May reason guide the helm when passion blows the gale.
May those who would enslave become slaves themselves.
May genius and merit never want a friend.
May the road of happiness be lighted by virtue.
May life last as long as it is worth wearing.
May we never murmur without a cause, and never have a cause to murmur.
May the eye that drops for the misfortunes of others never shed a tear
for its own.
May the lovers of the fair sex never want means to support and spirit to
defend them. May the tear of misery be dried by the hand of
commiseration.
May the voyage of life end in the haven of happiness.
Provision to the unprovided.
Peace and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with
none.
Riches to the generous
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