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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You may well weep, said my uncle," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What thou canst not amend in thyself or others, bear thou with patience until God ordaineth otherwise. When comfort is taken away, do not presently despair. Stand with an even mind resigned to the will of God, whatever shall befall, because after winter cometh the summer; after ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For mine own part, said Major Gookins," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do hold our brother Eliot's book on the Christian Commonwealth, which the General Court did make haste to condemn on the coming in of the king, to be a sound and seasonable treatise, notwithstand...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "With pleasant aspect, Phoebus smiles upon The tender buds and blooms that hang thereon; At this tree's root Astrea sits and sings, And waters it, whence upright Justice springs, Which yearly shoots forth laws and liberties That no man's will or wit may tyrannize. Those birds of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He thought he beheld a great snake crawl up out of the marsh, and stand upon his tail under a tall maple-tree; and he thought the snake spake to him, and bade him be of good cheer, for he would guide him safe out of the swamp, and make of him a great chief and Powah, if he would...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There never was a king's palace lighted up and adorned like this, continued Mr. Mather, as we went homewards." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It seemeth to be Gods design to show how that He can glorify himself in the work of His hands, even at this season of darkness...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But what came of it? asked Rebecca." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did the Evil Spirit whom they thus called upon testify against himself, by telling who were his instruments in mischief?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By nature wrath's his portion, thine, no more, Till grace his soul and thine in Christ restore. Make sure thy second birth, else thou shalt see Heaven ope to Indians wild, but shut to thee!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, woe is me! the old lord said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I rue my bargain sore!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "As sweet and good is young Kathleen As Eve before her fall;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, come to me, my daughter dea...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get up, old man! the wake-lights shine!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ye murthering witch, quoth he," }, { "from": "human", "value": "So I'm rid of your tongue, I little care If they shine for you or me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But giv...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is strange, said the Major," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He was a shining light, indeed, said Mr. Mather," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The History of New England; or, Wonder-Working Providence of Sion's Saviour," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have heard say his hand was heavy upon these people," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And well it might be, said the old woman, for more pestilent and provoking strollers and ranters you shall never find than these same Quakers. They were such a sore trouble to the G...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There was a famous dinner at the Governor's that day, and many guests, and the Governor had ordered from his cellar some wine, which was a gift from a Portuguese captain, and of rare quality, as I know of mine own tasting, when word was sent to the Governor that a man wished to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, they never lacked words, said she," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And what did become of the women?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "They kept them in jail awhile, said Nurse Lake," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is dreadful!" }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, me! I shall never forget these words of that godly man, continued my aunt," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Friends, as they call themselves, at their great house on the Island, and the Governor sometimes speaks therein, having, as one of the elders here saith of him," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dost thou well to be angry? Then said the magistrate," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yonder is a Quaker with his hat on talking to a godly minister." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nay, quoth the shape," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So he lo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Contemplations," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The dawning morn with songs thou dost prevent, Sets hundred notes unto thy feathered crew, So each one tunes his pretty instrument, And, warbling out the old, begins the new. And thus they pass their youth in summer season, Then follow thee unto a better region, Where winter's n...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Me never come again, said the old Indian." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No. Umpachee is very old. He has no squaw; he has no young men who call him father. Umpachee is like that tree;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My young brother's talk is good, said the old man." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Great Father sees that his skin is white, and that mine is red. He sees my young brother when he sits in his praying-house, and me when me offer him corn and deer's flesh in the woo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nay, said Mr. Wigglesworth," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The time hath been, continued Mr. Wigglesworth," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Them that sin, rebuke before all, that others also may fear." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Three Brothers," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Several Poems by a Gentlewoman of New England, with these words on the blank page thereof, from Proverbs xxxi. 30," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised, written in the Governor's own hand. All the great folks hereabout ha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "R. G." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Greatly respected by all who knew him;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "VALENTINE ORSON STUBBS, M. D., Indian doctor and dealer in roots and herbs." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dr. Singletary is dead!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God's Acre. Below is the village, with its sloops and fishing-boats at the wharves, and its crescent of white houses mirrored in the water. Eastward is the misty line of the great sea. Blue peaks of distant mountains roughen the horizon of the north. Westward, the broad, clear r...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Much study is a weariness to the flesh." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will siller do it?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Against the wind, against the tide, Steadied with upright keel." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Meetin'-'us-Hill," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Human life, he would say," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The blacksmith, subjecting to his will the swart genii of the mines of coal and iron; the potter, with his" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "GOOD-MORNING, Mrs. Barnet," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My friend, who is spending a few weeks with me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, it is so long since you have called on us that we have been talking of going up to the village to see you, as soon as Robert can get away from his cornfield. You don't know how little ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Her trials had made her heart tender with sympathy for all in affliction. She seemed inevitably drawn towards the sick and suffering. In their presence the burden of her own sorrow seemed to fall off. She was the most cheerful and sunny-faced nurse I ever knew; and I always felt...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The result of all this you can easily conjecture. Robert Barnet abandoned the sea, and, with the aid of some of his friends, purchased the farm where he now lives, and the anniversary of his shipwreck found him the husband of Julia. I can assure you I have had every reason to co...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Doctor, said I," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm glad to see you like Horace; not merely as a clever satirist and writer of amatory odes, but as a true lover of Nature. How pleasant are his simple and beautiful descriptions of his yellow, flowing Tiber, the herds a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't remember the passage," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I dare say not, quoth the Doctor." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You clergymen take it for granted that no good thing can come home from the Nazareth of the Apocrypha. But where will you find ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look here! said he." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here's a letter that I've got by the Polly Pike from one of your old patients that you gave over for a dead man long ago." }, { "from": "human", "value": "From the other world, of course," }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, twenty times, said the Doctor;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And from that time he was on deck as much as his health would allow of, and took a deal of notice of everything new and uncommon. But, for all that, the poor fellow was so sick, and pale, and peaking, that we all thought we should have to heave him overboard some day or bury him...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lucille begged that I would let him stay; for she said God would hear her prayers, and he would get well. I told her I would n't urge him any more; for if I was as young as he was, and had such a pretty nurse to take care of me, I should be willing to winter at the North Pole. W...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Doctor! Doctor!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's the matter, my lad?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mother wants you to come right over to our house. Father's tumbled off the hay-cart; and when they got him up he didn't know nothing; but they gin h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, said he, heaving up a great sigh from the depths of his inner man," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've had a tried time of it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And so have I, said the wife." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thee's been kickin...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A very remarkable exercise, soliloquized Aminadab;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dear me! what was it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It must have been a dream," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, is that all? returned the good woman." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Friend Ivison, said a red-faced lawyer, almost breathless with his hurry," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have you voted yet, Mr. Ivison? It 's time to get your vote in. I wonder you should be in your office now. No business has so much at stake in this election as yo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How's thee do, Aminadab? said he." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thee's voted, I suppose?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, Jacob, said he;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't like the candidate. I can't see my way clear to vote for a wa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hewed the dark old woods away, And gave the virgin fields to the day And the pea and the bean beside the door Bloomed where such flowers ne'er bloomed before; And the maize stood up, and the bearded rye Bent low in the breath of an unknown sky." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Truly, Alice, this is one of God's great marvels in the wilderness, said John Ward, the minister, and the original projector of the settlement, to his young wife, as they stood in the door of their humble dwelling." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This would be a rare ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is surely a war party of the heathen, said Mr. Ward, as he listened intently to the approaching sound." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God grant they mean us no evil!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What news do you bring us of the savages?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The people have sinned, and the heathen are the instruments whereby the Lord hath willed to chastise them, said the messenger, with that peculiar nasal inflection of voice, so characteristic of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nummus quantum." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nay, nay, said Mr. Ward, turning away from the savage," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nosh, Passaconaway!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hold! exclaimed Mr. Ward, grasping the arm of Eaton." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He threatens us with his father's vengeance. For God's sake keep your fire!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't go to neighbor Clements's to-night, Mary, said Alice Ward to her young, unmarried sister;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm afraid some of the tawny Indians may be lurking hereabout. Mr. Ward says he thinks they will be dangerous neighbors for us." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mary Edmands! said the stranger," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Richard Martin! can it be possible!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yea, Mary, answered the other," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have followed thee to the new world, in that love which neither sea nor land can abate. For many weary months I have waite...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us hasten to depart, said Martin," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What mean you, Richard? What was 't you said about our going to that sink of wickedness at Providence? Why don't you go back with me to sister Ward's?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ma...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stay then, said Martin, fiercely dashing her hand from his," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stay yet a moment," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let go the gal, let her go! said old Job Clements, thrusting the long barrel of his gun through the bushes withi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Vile heretic! exclaimed Mr. Ward, snatching a musket from the hands of his neighbor, and levelling it full at the head of Martin;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wagh! down um gun, said a powerful Indian, as he laid his rough hand on the shoulder of the minister." }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Richard, dear Richard, I am your Mary as much as ever I was. I'll go with you to the ends of the earth. Your God shall be my God, and where you are buried there will I be also." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good, good." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come back, Mary Edmands! shouted Mr. Ward." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In God's name come back." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is too late! said the minister, as he struggled down to the water's edge." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sat...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Confessions of an Opium Eater." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You seem somewhat ill," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am indeed ill, he said, slowly, and with that quavering, deep-drawn breathing, which is so indicative of anguish, mental and physical." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am weak as a child, weak alik...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have seen Mrs. H------, of -------?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you not think her a fine woman?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, certainly, a fine woman. She was once, I am told, very beautiful." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I only knew thee as thou wert, A being not of earth!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But though all these, with fondness warm, Said welcome o'er and o'er, Still that expressive shade or form Was silent, as before! And yet its stillness never brought To them one hesitating thought." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The peculiar creative faculty of the eye, the fearful gift of a diseased vision, still remains, but materially weakened and divested of its former terrors. My mind has recovered in some degree its shaken and suspended faculties. But happiness, the buoyant and elastic happiness o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Was my aim too lofty? It cannot be; for my Creator has given me a spirit which would spurn a meaner one. I have studied to act in accordance with His will; yet have I felt all along like one walking in blindness. I have listened to the living champions of the Church; I have pore...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now may Heaven bless the sweet enthusiast for this interruption of my bitter reflections! said the student, in the earnest tenderness of impassioned feeling." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She knows how gladly I shall obey her summons; she knows how readily I shall f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Interrogavi Terram," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look to thyself. Turn thine eye inward. Heed not the opinion of the world. Lean not upon the broken reed of thy philosophy, thy verbal orthodoxy, thy skill in tongues, thy knowledge of the Fathers. Remember that truth was seen by the humble fishermen of Galilee, and overlooked b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Enoch Arden," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In with you, man, said Pelatiah Curtis." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is no time for kissing and such fooleries when the tide serves." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is a very affecting scene, said the commissioner, wiping his eyes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I must keep the impression of it for my 'Columbiad';" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I rather think I do, said Pelatiah;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your wife! cried the other." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She is mine before God and man. I am David Matson, and she is the mother of my children." }, { "from": "gpt", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Fair Maid of Perth." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That year young lads in Umbro Shall plunge the struggling sheep;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Try again, said my uncle. Suddenly the bait sank out of sight." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now for it, thought I;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I made a strong pull, and brought up a tangle of weeds. Again and again I cast out my line with aching ar...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But remember, boy, he said, with his shrewd smile," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never brag of your fish before you catch him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Here's to budgets, packs, and wallets; Here's to all the wandering train." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A heavy, cursed, and relentless drench,-- The land it soaks is putrid;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Give, says Benevolence, as with some difficulty I fish up a small coin from the depths of my pocket." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not a cent, says selfish Prudence; and I drop it from my fingers." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Think, says the good ang...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Stephen, what news from old Barrington?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, well, I thought I knew ye, he answers, not the least disconcerted." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How do you do? and how's your folks? All well, I hope. I took this 'ere pa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Luck go with him! He has broken in upon the sombre train of my thoughts and called up before me pleasant and grateful recollections. The old farm- house nestling in its valley; hills stretching off to the south and green meadows to the east; the small stream which came noisily d...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did she die? we inquired anxiously. There was a cun-ing twinkle in the old rogue's eye as he responded," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, no, she did n't. She got married." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "His...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They had been fou for weeks thegither." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of a wandering Scotchman. To him I owe my first introduction to the songs of Burns. After eating his bread and cheese and drinking his mug of cider he gave us Bonny Doon, Highland Mary, and Auld Lang Syne. He had a rich, full voice, and entered heartily into the spirit of his ly...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our gude man cam hame at e'en, And hame cam be; And there he saw a saddle horse Where nae horse should be. 'How cam this horse here? How can it be? How cam this horse here Without the leave of me?' 'A horse?' quo she. 'Ay, a horse,' quo he. 'Ye auld fool, ye blind fool,-- And bl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What if a son of mine was in a strange land?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "regarded her as an unfailing friend; and the sight of her plain cap was to them an assurance of forthcoming creature-comforts. There was indeed a tribe of lazy strollers, having their place of rendezvous in the town of Barrington, New Hampshire, whose low vices had placed them b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The proper study of mankind is man," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Other hands may grasp the field or forest, Proud proprietors in pomp may shine; Thou art wealthier,--all the world is thine." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fair weather cometh out of the north." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Send for the milingtary." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--the calm, uncomplaining endurance of those who can bear up against persecution uncheered by sympathy or applause, and, with a full and keen appreciation of the value of all which they are called to sacrifice, confront danger and death in unselfish devotion to duty. Fox, preach...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But patience is more oft the exercise Of saints, the trial of their fortitude, Making them each his own deliverer And victor over all That tyranny or fortune can inflict." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But, while Milton mourned over this disastrous change, no self-re...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sabbathless Satan,--he who his unglad Task ever plies midst rotatory burnings For wrath divine has made him like a wheel In that red realm from whence are no returnings." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Divine labor, noble, ever fruitful,--the grand, sole miracle of ma...