"It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood."
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"Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation."
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"Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next."
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"There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told."
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"All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves."
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"Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave."
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"O thou, whose days are yet all spring, Faith, blighted once, is past retrieving; Experience is a dumb, dead thing; The victory's in believing."
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"No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed."
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"Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood."
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"It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity."
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"The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go."
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"Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected."
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"The victory's in believing."
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"Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart."
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"Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free."
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"God'll send the bill to you."
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"This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur."
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"Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run."
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"Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men."
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"If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them."
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