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• He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for other's good, is a poor, frozen churl.
• The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.
• A willing heart adds feather to the heel.
• To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished! To endure,…
• Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar.
• Heaven often smites in mercy, even when the blow is severest.
• Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.
• I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!
• I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that…
• Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot…
• O lovely Sisters! is it true That they are all inspired by you, And write by inward magic charm'd, And high enthusiasm…
• The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare…

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