Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
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A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.James Russell Lowell
Gineral C. is a dreffle smart man He 's ben on all sides thet give places or pelf But consistency still wuz a part of his plan, He 's ben true to one party, an' thet is himself.
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Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
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This child is not mine as the first was I cannot sing it to rest I cannot lift it up fatherly, And bless it upon my breast. Yet it lies in my little one's cradle, And sits in my little one's chair, And the light of the heaven she 's gone to Transfigures its golden hair.
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The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.
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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
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