"Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory."
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"Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain."
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"There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business."
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"Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace."
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"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train."
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"The green grass floweth like a stream Into the oceans's blue."
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"So we're all right, an' I, for one, Don't think our cause'll lose in vally By rammin' Scriptur' in our gun, An' gittin' Natur' for an ally."
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"There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat."
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"Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart."
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"In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking."
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"Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship."
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"All God's angels come to us disguised."
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"Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come."
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"The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God."
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"That best academy, a mother's knee."
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"A wise man travels to discover himself."
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"The eye is the notebook of the poet."
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"As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend."
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"Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time."
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"Not failure, but low aim, is crime."
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