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"The children of the poor are so apt to look as if the rich would have been over-blest with such! Alas for the angel capabilities, interrupted so soon with care, and with after life so sadly unfulfilled."
"Temptation hath a music for all ears."
"Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins"
"T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone."
"And mad ambition trumpeteth to all."
"If e'er I win a parting token, 'Tis something that has lost its power-- A chain that has been used and broken, A ruin'd glove, a faded flower; Something that makes my pleasure less, Something that means--forgetfulness."
"Some noble spirits mistake despair for content."
"O, when the heart is, full, when bitter thoughts come crowding thickly up for utterance, and the poor common words of courtesy are such a very mockery, how much the bursting heart may pour itself in prayer!"
"The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed."
"Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun."
"One lamp — thy mother’s love — amid the stars Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before The throne of God, burn through eternity - Holy — as it was lit and lent thee here."
"Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume."
"A lamp is lit in woman's eye; that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by."
"Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners."
"Wisdom, sits alone, topmost in heaven: she is its light, its God; and in the heart of man she sits as high, though groveling minds forget her oftentimes, seeing but this world's idols."
"The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away."
"They are all up — the innumerable stars— And hold their place in heaven. ... There they stand, Shining in order, like a living hymn Written in light, awaking at the breath Of the celestial dawn, and praising Him Who made them, with the harmony of sphere."
"He who binds His soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven."
"Ah me! the world is full of meetings such as this,--a thrill, a voiceless challenge and reply, and sudden partings after!"
"The perfect world, by Adam trod, Was the first temple--built by God-- His fiat laid the corner stone, And heaved its pillars, one by one."