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Stonewall Jackson, wrapped in his beard and his silence.

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A soul. A soul is nothing. Can you see it, smell it, touch it? No.

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Youth is the pollen
That blows through the sky
And does not ask why.

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And I died in my boots like a pioneer With the whole wide sky above me.

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Eternally the choking steam goes up
From the black pools of seething oil...

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And kept his heart a secret to the end
From all the picklocks of biographers.
Of Robert E. lee

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You can weigh John Brown's body well enough, But how and in what balance weigh John Brown?

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If two New Hampshiremen aren't a match for the devil, we might as well give the country back to the Indians.

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He shall not come to conquest,
The conquest of kings,
But in the bare stable
He shall judge all things.

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When Daniel Boone goes by at night The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their eyes.

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Life was a storm to wander through.
I took the wrong way. Good and well,
At least my feet sought out not Hell!

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I have been in the Place of the Gods and seen it! Now slay me, if it is the law — but still I know they were men.

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Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years - a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds.

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Perhaps 'tis not strictly in accordance with the evidence … but even the damned may salute the eloquence of Mr. Webster.

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This in my heart I keep for goad!
Somewhere, in Heaven she walks that road.
Somewhere... in Heaven... she walks... that... road...

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For all those beaten, for the broken heads,
The fosterless, the simple, the oppressed,
The ghosts in the burning city of our time…

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He knew that once you bested anybody like Mr. Scratch in fair fight, his power on you was gone. And he could see that Mr. Scratch knew it too.

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The time is — time. The place is anywhere.
The voices speak to you across the air
To say that once again a child is born.
A child is born.

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Oh, Georgia booze is mighty fine booze,
The best yuh ever poured yuh,
But it eats the soles right offen yore shoes,
For Hell's broke loose in Georgia.

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She stood there, and at once I knew
The bitter thing that I must do.
There could be no surrender now;
Though Sleep and Death were whispering low.

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Something begins, begins;
Starlit and sunlit, something walks abroad
In flesh and spirit and fire.
Something is loosed to change the shaken world.

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Icarus, Icarus, though the end is piteous,
Yet forever, yea, forever we shall see thee rising thus,
See the first supernal glory, not the ruin hideous.

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Go play with the towns you have built of blocks, The towns where you would have bound me! I sleep in my earth like a tired fox, And my buffalo have found me.

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American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are as various as your land.

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I knew then that they had been men, neither gods nor demons. It is a great knowledge, hard to tell and believe. They were men — they went a dark road, but they were men.

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Daniel Webster: You seem to have an excellent acquaintance with the law, sir.
The Devil: Sir, that is no fault of mine. Where I come from, we have always gotten the pick of the Bar.

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Oh, where are you coming from, soldier, gaunt soldier,
With weapons beyond any reach of my mind,
With weapons so deadly the world must grow older
And die in its tracks, if it does not turn kind?

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