Thomas Starr King Quotes

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• The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.
• What a privilege it is to be an American!
• Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad, I weigh a ton.
• Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe.
• Be sure of the foundation of your life. Know why you live as you do. Be ready to give a reason for it. Do not,…
• Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set up one letter of the infinite alphabet,…
• Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius.
• I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience…
• The Man Without a Country, was an orator no one could silence and no one could answer.
• What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other.
• Do not weep for me.
• I know it is all right. I wish I could make you feel so, I wish I could describe my feelings.
• It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.

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