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Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
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SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act iii., Sc. 4.

Good night! good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night, till it be morrow.
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SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

To all, to each, a fair good night,
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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SCOTT: _Marmion,_ Canto vi., L'Envoy.


=Government.=

'T is government that makes them seem divine.
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SHAKS.: _3 Henry VI.,_ Act 1., Sc. 4.

Each petty hand
Can steer a ship becalm'd; but he that will
Govern and carry her to her ends, must know
His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails;
What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers;
Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop 'em;
What strands, what shelves, what rooks do threaten her.
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BEN JONSON: _Catiline,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.

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