The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it.
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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woodsRalph Waldo Emerson
The true poem is the poet's mind.
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Love is the essence of God.
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Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot their owning is not graceful seems to be a compromise of their character they seem to steal their own dividends.
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The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.
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My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can.
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