You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.
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Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been.John Greenleaf Whittier
Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Thy peace.
John Greenleaf Whittier
How dwarfed against his manliness She sees the poor pretension, The wants, the aims, the follies, born Of fashion and convention.
John Greenleaf Whittier
And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways.
John Greenleaf Whittier
On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll On plastic clay and leathern scroll, Man wrote his thoughts the ages passed, And lo the Press was found at last.
John Greenleaf Whittier
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