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/ page 959 of 1205 /Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
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The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
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The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.
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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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Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
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Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
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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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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
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There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
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And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
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There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
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Fate loves the fearless.
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A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
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It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
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The eye is the notebook of the poet.
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