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"This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one. Even now as I write they are leading old John Brown to execution in Virginia for attempting to rescue slaves! This is sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind which will come soon!"
"The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!"
"I cannot believe any man can be perfectly well in body, who has much labor of the mind to perform."
"The twilight is sad and cloudy, The wind blows wild and free, And like the wings of sea-birds Flash the white caps of the sea."
"The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken."
"Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest!"
"Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth, Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire; Men, women, and all animals that breathe Are statues, and not paintings."
"Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied."
"Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden."
"Shepherds at the grange, Where the Babe was born, Sang with many a change, Christmas carols until morn."
"The twilight that surrounds the border-land of old romance."
"Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone."
"The world loves a spice of wickedness."
"Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!"
"Love is a bodily shape; and Christian works are no more than animate faith and love, as flowers are the animate springtide."
"Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king."
"This song of mine Is a song of the vine To be sung by the glowing embers Of wayside inns, When the rain begins To darken the drear Novembers. and For the richest and best Is the wind of the West That grows by the Beautiful River; Whose sweet perfume Fills all the room With a bension on the giver. and When you ask one friend to dine, Give hime your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do."
"None but yourself who are your greatest foe."
"Be noble in every thought And in every deed!"
"Let us be merciful as well as just."