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"By the shores of Gitchee Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis, Dark behind it rose the forest, Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, Rose the firs with cones upon them; Bright before it beat the water, Beat the clear and sunny water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water."
"See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away Over the snowy peaks!"
"Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!"
"As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain."
"Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine."
"Let the dead Past bury its dead!"
"They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer."
"The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized."
"Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak."
"Day of the Lord, as all our days should be!"
"Let us labor for an inward stillness-- An inward stillness and an inward healing. That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are still, and we no longer entertain Our own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions, But God alone speaks to us and we wait In singleness of heart that we may know His will, and in the silence of our spirits, That we may do His will and do that only"
"Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike."
"Perseverance is a great element of success."
"Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are the happiest, For those that wander they know not where Are full of trouble and full of care; To stay at home is best."
"Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive."
"No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead."
"O little souls! as pure as white And crystalline as rays of light Direct from heaven, their source divine; Refracted through the mist of years, How red my setting sun appears, How lurid looks this soul of mine!"
"Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God."
"Resolve and thou art free."
"If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!"