Will Carleton Quotes

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• Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em…
• Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day Sleeping the years…
• To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.
• We thank Thee, O Father of all, for... all the soul-help that sad souls understand.
• But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key…
• Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we…
• Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.
• Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way.
• So I have talked with Betsey and Betsey has talked with me, And we have agreed together that we can't never agree
• If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.
• I've watched my duty, straight an' true, an' tried to do it well; Part of the time kept heaven in view, An' part steered clear…
• Thanksgiving-day, I fear, If one the solemn truth must touch, Is celebrated, not so much To thank the Lord for blessing o'er, As for the…
• Not all the labour of the earth Is done by hardened hands.
• And that was the way The deuce was to pay As it always is, at the close of the day That gave us
• Yellow, mellow, ripened days, Sheltered in a golden coating; O'er the dreamy, listless haze, White and dainty cloudlets floating; Winking at the blushing trees, And…
• Things at home are crossways, and Betsy and I are out.

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