"The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow."
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"Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes."
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"Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances."
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"It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us."
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"There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise."
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"Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return."
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"Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me."
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"Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu."
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"No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show for the poorest reality, who does not so love his work that he is not only glad to give himself for it, but finds rather a gain than a sacrifice in the surrender."
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"If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon."
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"Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life; for the more sympathies we gain or awaken for what is beautiful, by so much deeper will be our sympathy for that which is most beautiful,--the human soul!"
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"He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than crushing His African children with slavery, Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion, Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows, Approaches the heart through the door of the toes."
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"The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever."
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"Humbleness is always grace; always dignity"
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"A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by. Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me, For Christ's sweet sake and charity."
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"O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change."
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"Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. . . . . . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God."
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"What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!"
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"These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread."
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"We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage."
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