Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
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These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings This is the page whose letters shall be seen, Changed by the sun to words of living green This is the scholar whose immortal pen Spells the first lesson hunger taught to men These are the lines that heavencommanded Toil Shows on his deed, the charter of the soil.
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What you bring away from the Bible depends to some extent on what you carry to it.
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He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
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