"Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!"
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"Peace! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies! But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise."
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"God is not dead; nor doth He sleep; ... The wrong shall fail, The right prevail, With peace on earth, good will to men."
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"In ourselves are triumph and defeat."
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"Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings."
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"The natural alone is permanent."
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"The morrow was a bright September morn; The earth was beautiful as if newborn; There was nameless splendor everywhere, That wild exhilaration in the air, Which makes the passers in the city street Congratulate each other as they meet."
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"The bells themselves are the best of preachers, Their brazen lips are learned teachers, From their pulpits of stone, in the upper air, Sounding aloft, without crack or flaw, Shriller than trumpets under the Law, Now a sermon and now a prayer."
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"One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm."
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"I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every hand, As if the ebbing tide would flow no more."
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"Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts."
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"And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence."
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"Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame."
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"And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives."
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"Let us then, be up and doing."
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"There are two angels that attend unseen Each one of us, and in great books record Our good and evil deeds. He who writes down The good ones, after every action closes His volume, and ascends with it to God. The other keeps his dreadful day-book open Till sunset, that we may repent; which doing, The record of the action fades away, And leaves a line of white across the page. Now if my act be good, as I believe it, It cannot be recalled. It is already Sealed up in heaven, as a good deed accomplished. The rest is yours."
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"Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things."
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"When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do!"
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"We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time."
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"The story, from beginning to end, I found again in a heart of a friend."
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