Benjamin Quotes

#1. Bob Riley, a kind soul who "treads lightly in this world," is in the 22nd year of a federal life without parole LSD sentence.

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#2. I'm king of the dead and I make my throne On a monument slab of marble cold; And my scepter of rule is the spade I hold: Come they from cottage or come they from hall, Mankind are my subjects, all, all, all! Let them loiter in pleasure or toilfully spin I gather them in, I gather them in!

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#3. The mountain rill Seeks with no surer flow the far bright sea, Than my unchang'd affections flow to thee.

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#4. The best doctors give the least medicines

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#5. Pure and undimmed, thy angel smile Is mirrored on my dreams, Like evening's sunset-girded isle Upon her shadowed streams: And o'er my thoughts thy vision floats, Like melody of spring-bird, notes; When the blue halcyon gently laves His plumage in the flashing waves.

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#6. If we don't hang together, by Heavens we shall hang separately

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#7. Great faith it needs, according to my view, To trust in that which never could be true.

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#8. Press on! If Fortune play thee false To-day, tomorrow she'll be true; Whom now she sinks she now exalts, Taking old gifts and granting new, The wisdom of the present hour Makes up the follies past and gone; To weakness, strength succeeds, and power From frailty springs! Press on, press on!

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#9. The art of getting riches consists very much in thrift. All men are not equally qualified for getting money, but it is in the power of every one alike to practice this virtue.

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#10. I don't know about you, but I am planning to scream and run.

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#11. Man and woman have each of them qualities and tempers in which the other is deficient, and which in union contribute to the common felicity.

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