Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures such a smile, if the artful but know it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.
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On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead.Helen Hunt Jackson
Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.
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If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.
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The mighty are brought low by many a thing Too small to name. Beneath the daisy's disk Lies hid the pebble for the fatal sling.
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Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains, But Emigrated to another star.
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When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery.
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