Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.
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The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.Oliver Wendell Holmes
A silence like the song of dreams.
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To reach the port of Heaven we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must sail, and not drift or lie at anchor.
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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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But Memory blushes at the sneer, And Honor turns with frown defiant, And Freedom, leaning on her spear, Laughs louder than the laughing giant.
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