James Whitcomb Riley Quotes

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• He is not dead, he is just - away.
• I love the horse from hoof to head. From head to hoof and tail to mane. I love the horse as I have said -…
• Oh, the world's a curious compound, with its honey and its gall, With its cares and bitter crosses, but a good world after all. And…
• When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered…
• Just a wee cot-the crickets chirr-love and the smiling face of her.
• Think of him still as the same, I say, He is not dead, he is just - away.
• The ripest peach is highest on the tree
• O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk.
• It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain…
• The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably…
• Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

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