"Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend."
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"Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old one disappears. Only a few stand in illuminated characters never to be effaced."
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"Evil is only good perverted."
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"Bell, thou soundest merrily, When the bridal party To the church doth hie! Bell, thou soundest solemnly, When, on Sabbath morning, Fields deserted lie!"
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"There is nothing perfectly secure but poverty."
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"There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the wooden wall!"
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"But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust."
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"From labor there shall come forth rest."
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"Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!"
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"And the bright faces of my young companions Are wrinkled like my own, or are no more."
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"All your strength is in union, all your danger is in discord."
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"Fortune comes well to all that comes not late."
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"The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy."
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"The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain."
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"Even cities have their graves!"
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"The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide."
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"A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood."
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"The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture."
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"The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls; The day returns, but nevermore Returns the traveler to the shore, And the tide rises, the tide falls."
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"All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind , As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves."
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