"He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing."
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"Borrowed garments never keep one warm."
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"It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough."
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"You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God."
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"It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century."
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"An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent; The tent is struck, the vision stays; I only know she came and went."
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"Better to me the poor mans crust, Better the blessing of the poor, Though I turn me empty from his door; That is no true alms which the hand can hold; He gives nothing but worthless gold Who gives from a sense of duty; But he who gives a slender mite, And gives to that which is out of sight, That thread of the all-sustaining Beauty Which runs through all and doth all unite, - The hand cannot clasp the whole of his alms, The heart outstretches its eager palms, For a god goes with it and makes it store To the soul that was starving in darkness before."
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"He's true to God who's true to man."
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"A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know."
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"It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous."
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"Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction."
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"Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed."
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"All that hath been majestical In life or death, since time began, Is native in the simple heart of all, The angel heat of man."
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"Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands."
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"That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it."
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"The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us."
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"Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles."
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"Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?"
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"To fail at all is to fail utterly."
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"The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America."
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