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Page 525 - Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep" — the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care; The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great Nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast — Lady M. What do you mean? Macb. Still it cried "Sleep no more!
Page 519 - My friend, if thou hadst all the artillery of Woolwich trundling at thy back in support of an unjust thing, and infinite bonfires visibly waiting ahead of thee, to blaze centuries long for thy victory on behalf of it, I would advise thee to call halt, to fling down thy baton and say,
Page 310 - ... which term shall include any Indian allotment while the title to the same shall be held in trust by the Government, or while the same shall remain inalienable by the allottee without the consent of the United States, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than sixty days, and by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars for the first offense and not less than two hundred dollars for each offense thereafter: Provided however, That the person convicted shall be committed until fine and...
Page 525 - GOD bless the man who first invented sleep !' So Sancho Panza said, and so say I : And bless him, also, that he didn't keep His great discovery to himself; nor try To make it — as the lucky fellow might — A close monopoly by patent-right ! Yes — bless the man who first invented sleep...
Page 523 - I have come to the conclusion that more than half the disease which embitters the middle and latter part of life is due to avoidable errors...
Page 521 - It will have its effect on the blood, be sure. The food which will ever for you be the best Is that you like most and can soonest digest; All unripe fruit and decaying flesh Beware of, and fish that is not very fresh. Your water, transparent and pure as you think it...
Page 525 - Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed," Observes some solemn, sentimental owl; Maxims like these are very cheaply said ; But, ere you make yourself a fool or...
Page 515 - Yes," he answered, "I am like the Huma" — and finished the sentence as before. What horrors, when it flashed over him that he had made this fine speech, word for word, twice over! Yet it was not true as the lady might perhaps have fairly inferred, that he had embellished his conversation with the Huma daily during that whole interval of years. On the contrary, he had never once thought of the odious fowl until the recurrence of precisely the same circumstances brought up precisely the same idea....
Page 513 - I let it lie, fallow perchance, for a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
Page 525 - Tis beautiful to leave the world awhile For the soft visions of the gentle night ; And free, at last, from mortal care or guile, To live as only in the angels' sight, In sleep's sweet realm so cosily shut in, Where, at the worst, we only dream of sin ! So let us sleep, and give the Maker praise. I like the lad who, when his father thought To clip his morning nap by hackneyed phrase Of vagrant worm by early songster caught, Cried, 'Served him right! — it's not at all surprising; The worm was punished,...