When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
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We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.Henry Ward Beecher
I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
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Of all earthly music that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart
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Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.
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