O hearts that break and give no sign Save whitening lip and fading tresses.
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Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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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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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ay, tear her tattered ensign down Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky. Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannons roar The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more.
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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