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It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence.

– Henry Brougham

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Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old.

– George Fabricius

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Deeds, not words shall speak me.

– John Fletcher

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My object all sublime I shall achieve in time...

– W. S. Gilbert

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America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.

– Georg W. Hegel

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I detest life-insurance agents they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

– Stephen Leacock

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If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

– John McCrae

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As close as we are today, tomorrow when we come back from that battlefield, we will be as close as two men can possibly be, sharing a bond that can only be forged in the face of imminent disfigurement. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.

– Jeff Melvoin

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I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

– Sir Thomas Malory

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I am always afraid of your something shall be done.

– Titus Maccius Plautus

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As thou hast sown, so shall thou reap.

– Pinarius

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A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.

– Joseph Rickaby

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From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles.

– Charles Sumner

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We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us

– Andrew Schneider

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There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.

– Celia Thaxter

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Purse not your opinion, for the weak and dimwitted leader shall seek to surround thyself with minions'.”

– John P Sanders

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