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- Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting…
- It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.
- I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts o' taking revenge:…
- Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this,…
- A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of tender kinship from…
- What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? And is there any harmony of tints that has such stirring…
- It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be…
- It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.
- Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure…
- Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade
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