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Topic |
| Gods | I, Phoebus, sang those songs that gained so much renown I, Phoebus, sang them, Homer only wrote them down. |
| Gods | Say, Bacchus, why so placid? What can there be In commune held by Pallas and by thee? Her pleasure is in darts and battles, thine In joyous feasts and draughts of rosy wine. |
| Gods | Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine, A tenth is Sappho, maid divine. |
| Goodness | To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly. |
| Government | Despotism tempered by assassination, that is our Magna Carta. |
| Government | Oh, we are weary pilgrims, to this wilderness we bring A Church without a bishop, a State without a King. |
| Government | A government of laws, and not of men. |
| Grave | The grave's the market place. |
| Health | Why should a man die who has sage in his garden? |
| Heart | Yonkers that have hearts of oak at fourscore yeares. |
| Hunger | A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger, but a serving-man's wife may starve for hunger. |
| Ideas | The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. |
| Ideas | Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when a man has only one idea. |
| Imagination | . . . his master was in a manner always in a wrong Boxe and building castels in the ayre or catching Hares with Tabers. |
| Imagination | Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. |
| Influence | Our life's a flying shadow, God the pole, The needle pointing to Him is our soul. |
| Jewels | She who from April dates her years, Diamonds should wear, lest bitter tears For vain repentance flow, this stone, Emblem of innocence is known. |
| Jewels | Wear a Sardonyx or for thee No conjugal felicity. The August-born without this stone 'Tis said must live unloved and lone. |
| Jewels | If cold December gave you birth, The month of snow and ice and mirth, Place on you hand a Turquoise blue, Success will bless whate'er you do. |
| Jewels | By her who in this month is born, No gems save Garnets should be worn, They will insure her constancy, True friendship and fidelity. |
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