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The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.

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Most brains reflect but the crown of a hat.

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An umbrella is of no avail against a Scotch mist.

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Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart.

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The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accurst.

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We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.

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Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

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You've gut to git up airly
Ef you want to take in God.

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I don't believe in princerple,
But oh I du in interest.

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A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

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His heart kep' goin' pity-pat,
But hern went pity-Zekle.

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This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.

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Like streams that keep a summer mind
Snow-hid in Jenooary.

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Each day the world is born anew
For him who takes it rightly

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A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.

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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

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Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime.

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In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.

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Ez to my princerples, I glory
In hevin' nothin' o' the sort.

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But civlyzation doos git forrid
Sometimes upon a powder-cart.

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All kin' o' smily round the lips,
An' teary round the lashes.

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'T was kin' o' kingdom-come to look
On sech a blessed cretur.

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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

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The green grass floweth like a stream
Into the oceans's blue.

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He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.

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Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward.

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The thing we long for, that we are
For one transcendent moment.

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The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

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Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.

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She doeth little kindnesses
Which most leave undone, or despise.

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