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- Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.
- It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy.
- I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky; It was a childish…
- My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
- Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole; But what were that intrinsic virtue worth, Suppose some fellow, with…
- Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that huntress of the silver bow Fabled of old?…
- I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence, for no lonely bird would sing Into his hollow ear…
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